October, 2008

Live Mesh updates announced at PDC

Live Mesh is going into Beta later this week, along with support for Mac and Windows Mobile 6 clients. Other changes coming later this week (from the Live Mesh blog):

– Drag & Drop functionality in the Live …

PDC Liveblog Day 2 Part 1: Ray Ozzie, Steven Sinofsky, Scott Guthrie, and David Treadwell

Yesterday was our first attempt at Liveblogging the PDC keynotes.  Today we’re back with Day 2, in two parts.  In the first part we’ll hear about Windows 7, Live Mesh, and a few “surprises”.…

Windows Live Tools For Visual Studio Updated

Whilst there has been no official word on this yet, I noticed today that the Windows Live Tools for Visual Studio has been updated on Microsoft Downloads.

From the download page:

This CTP is an update to July 2008

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.

openid

There’s …

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 …