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Messenger Web Toolkit updates – UX polish, faster dev time, richer experience for non-Messenger users

Posted Friday, September 25, 2009 5:47 AM by alogan
We’ve been working hard on the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit (MWT) which allows you to connect your web site to 330M+ people who use Windows Live Messenger every month! Today we’d like to announce the availability of the Messenger Web Toolkit v3.5 Read More...
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Windows 7 has RTM’d

Posted Thursday, July 23, 2009 8:11 AM by alogan
I’ve been using Win7 for months. When combined with Office 2010 technical preview its an amazing experience. Read the official post here and press release REDMOND, Wash. — July 22, 2009 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the release to manufacturing (RTM) Read More...
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Show your Windows Live friends what you do around the web (Activity Aggregation)

Posted Tuesday, May 12, 2009 5:53 AM by alogan
A couple of weeks ago we shipped an update to Windows Live which made it possible for people to share the things they do around the web with the people they know in Windows Live (including Messenger and Hotmail). Here are some of the sites you can add: Read More...
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ANNOUNCEMENT: Reach your people everywhere, in real time!

Posted Thursday, March 19, 2009 6:51 AM by alogan
For users of the Web, being able to connect to friends and build social networks is becoming more important every day. Today, we are releasing the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit --a set of controls and libraries that enable you to connect Windows Read More...
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Making room for new stuff : retiring 2 web controls

Posted Tuesday, February 17, 2009 3:26 AM by alogan
We just posted that two web controls are being retired, so we can make room for new stuff coming @ MIX09 . The controls which are being discontinued are: Photos Control (showed you your photo albums and let you transfer the pictures to a third party website) Read More...
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Some new announcements re. Safety : Data Portability and Live ID Sign in

Posted Thursday, February 12, 2009 10:27 AM by alogan
I just posted a couple of new announcements over at dev.live.com. We have worked with Octazen to make their importer use the Live Contact API which is way cool, now lots of sites can provide safer addressbook portability. I also posted about some Live Read More...
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Thanks for all the feedback!

Posted Tuesday, December 02, 2008 11:10 AM by alogan
I posted on the dev.live.com main newsfeed the end of the Photo API and the App Storage community technology previews! All of the feedback you provided was awesome and it helped shape the Live Framework . We don’t have an exact schedule as to when a new Read More...
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ANNOUNCEMENT: Live ID OpenID Provider technical preview + see the screencast

Posted Tuesday, October 28, 2008 6:21 AM by alogan
Over at dev.live.com the team just announced developers are able to test/preview the Windows Live ID OpenID Provider in our test environment. A couple of nights ago I cut a really quick and dirty screencast of the experience – check it out below. Windows Read More...
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Get your Beta bits – and check out Photo Gallery programmability

Posted Thursday, September 18, 2008 11:48 AM by alogan
The teams just shipped some beta bits for Mail/Messenger/Photo Gallery/Movie Maker/Writer/Toolbar/Family Safety and Outlook Connector – whoa! ( check out liveside’s photo gallery post ) Lots of stuff. My favorite bit though, is a programmability scenario Read More...
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Get your Mesh on (in English) in India, Canada and Ireland!

Posted Monday, August 18, 2008 5:00 PM by alogan
Amit Mital just announced at dev.live.com (and the Live Mesh blog ) we are expanding the technical preview of Live Mesh to include Canada ( Paul will be happy ), India and Ireland ( a few weeks ago we expanded to the UK, Australia and New Zealand ). You Read More...
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ANNOUNCEMENT: Two way contact APIs with the top Social Networks and Windows Live - invite to WL from Facebook; invite to Bebo or facebook from Windows Live - SAFELY!

Posted Tuesday, March 25, 2008 8:10 PM by alogan
We just announced @ dev.live.com Windows Live have partnered with the top SNs around the world to provide consumers a safe way to invite their friends from Windows Live to << insert social network >> and vice-verser. Inviting my Facebook friends Read More...
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Quick Apps 6.0 are here - Social Search with Tafiti and Messenger | New Quick App | Lots of Enhancements

Posted Friday, February 29, 2008 12:40 AM by alogan
The Windows Live Platform Quick Applications demo sites are making real progress. Between the 5.0 release and the 6.0 release we closed a lot of work items and added some great features – all in 178 work items! --- Tafiti Search visualization has Read More...
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Huge Skydrive (5GB), Huge Availability (38 Countries!)

Posted Friday, February 22, 2008 4:36 AM by alogan
From the Skydrive blog : You've made two things clear since our first release: You want more space; and you want SkyDrive where you are. Today we're giving you both. You now have five times the space you had before — that’s 5GB of free online Read More...
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Microsoft joins DataPortability.org

Posted Friday, January 25, 2008 4:03 AM by alogan
Kevin just announced on dev.live.com Microsoft is joining DataPortbility.org who's mission is: put all existing technologies and initiatives in context to create a reference design for end-to-end Data Portability. To promote that design to the developer, Read More...
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ANNOUNCEMENT: New capabilities in Messenger APIs (Smooth Sign Up for Sharing Presence, Presence API, Color configuration on IM Control)

Posted Wednesday, December 05, 2007 10:42 AM by alogan
A while ago I announced the Windows Live Messenger IM Control on my blog - got to http://dev.live.com/Messenger/ The team have been doing some really cool stuff lately; We got some feedback: Its great but I can't have my users copying and pasting, how Read More...
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