Microsoft Data Centers Futures Architect James Hamilton is leaving Microsoft to become a Vice President at Amazon Web Services, according to a report by TechFlash , citing posts on Hamilton’s website and an email from an Amazon spokesman confirming the move. Hamilton, one of the original members of Windows...

Next week, at the O’Reilly Web 2.0 Expo at San Francisco’s Moscone Center, Microsoft is expected to unveil Live Mesh , a new product that will bring the first of Ray Ozzie’s services vision to light. Live Mesh combines a program installation on computers with a “web desktop”, or cloud based storage,...

( Note: while we've been serving up a number of potential new Windows Live logos recently, this isn't one of them. I just happen to like Clifford the Big Red Dog ) Much has been made recently about last night's announcement of the Google App Engine, along with some discussion of the seeming...

Its been almost a year since we first mentioned Windows Live Core, the project lead by Ray Ozzie to establish Microsoft's software as a service platform and not much has been said since then. Microsoft hasn't acknowledged its existance, despite the various exec bios and other documents mentioning...

With all the fuss about a "leaked" powerpoint from the MGX conference (that gives a tentative date for Windows 7 of 2010 ,) you'd be forgiven for missing the few points made relating to Windows Live. Here's a couple of blog posts that caught our eye. Ray Ozzie gave a keynote and showed again that he...