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PDC Liveblog Day 2 part 2: Don Box and Chris Anderson

David Treadwell at PDC: Live Mesh to join Windows Live

This is the third time we’ve had a chance to talk with David Treadwell, Corporate Vice President for Live Platform Services.  We’ll be talking a lot more in depth about Live Mesh coming up, but we appreciate the opportunity to …

Microsoft launches CTP for OpenID support in Windows Live ID

Yet another PDC announcement, and this one is from the Windows Live ID team. They’ve just opened up a Live ID test bed for those developers who want to start playing with Open ID integration. See for yourself.

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Live Mesh: How Does Live Mesh Relate To Azure?

As Kip already mentioned, tomorrow we’ll hear a lot more about Live Mesh at PDC. Today the keynote was all about Windows Azure, a Services Platform for the cloud. But how does Live Mesh relate to Azure? …

Windows Azure, PDC, Wifi, and more

Just spent the morning listening to Ray Ozzie and company unveil Windows Azure, a combination of Amazon EC2 type hosted services, Microsoft Online Services, and tools to hook them all together, sort of.  While not really Windows Live centric, Microsoft …

Liveblogging the keynote: Part one

Liveblogging the PDC Keynote Part One

OK Well I’m here at PDC, thanks to Jeff Sandquist and the Channel 9 guys LiveSide is sitting in a Barcalounger, not front row but dead center, Long should have pics up soon.  Jeff …

Live Image Search Adds Virtual Earth

If you search Images for major cities or landmarks on Live Search, you will now be able to see the results on a Virtual Earth Map. If available, like for the Space Needle, you will get a Bird’s …

Ray Ozzie opens up: our informal meetup with Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect

After today’s keynote, LiveSide, along with a small group of bloggers including Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror, Steve Gillmor of TechCrunchIT, Long Zheng, and some others that unfortunately I missed getting their names, were lucky enough to be invited to …

Windows Live Messenger: Telefonica’s Voype Web Calling Service Launches On Windows Live Messenger

A Messenger feature that got discontinued a little while back returns. VOIP! Telefonica, one of the largest telecommunication companies, brings their Web Calling Service Voype to Messenger in the following countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru, the United States, …

Live Mesh: Required Update To Live Mesh Coming Next Week

Attention, attention all Live Mesh Tech Preview users!

Next week Live Mesh will release a required update! Meaning if you wish to continue using the product you have to update, else no synchronization or Remote Desktop!

Why a required …