When I first heard about the new Jerry Seinfeld ad campaign that Microsoft was producing to promote the Windows brand, I was very excited. Finally, Microsoft was going to respond to the unfair, elitist Mac vs. PC ads that have been drip drip dripping...

In the previous release of Office Live, we had a deeply hidden and difficult to use feature known as Data Sharing. This feature was designed to allow you to take the data from one of the lists in your password-secured 'business applications' and publish...

Another great advance in the Winter 08 release of Office Live Small Business is the new Solution Packaging technology. This service allows you to take components off of your public-facing web site & entire business applications, package them together...

Office Live Small Business is designed in large part for the do-it-yourself entrepreneur who needs a web site and collaboration features.  In previous releases, we have been very focused on making it as easy as possible to use, especially around...

Finally, the floodgates have opened, the embargo has been lifted and I'm free to start blabbing about the latest release of Office Live Small Business. My apologies for the long silence. I'll be working on a few topics in coming days, so stay tuned...

Hey folks, just a quick post to let you know to save the dates and register for the upcoming Office Developer Conference … February 10 - 13, 2008 in San Jose. Previously, our tech evangelist Rob Barker blogged that there will be a track at the ODC that...

Hey folks, we've had a little bit of transition on the Office Live developer platform team. Our pals Rohit and Don both moved into new positions, but fortunately we have a new mega-star evangelist on Office Live now, Rob Barker. Check out his blog . ...

Our friends over in the Windows Live ID team have been hard at work lately and have snuck a couple innovations out there without me even noticing it. I know there are some Office Live folks who watch my blog for important developments and this definitely...

Yesterday, Microsoft finally started talking about some of the things we've been hush about for most of the year. Number 1 on the list of announcements, from my perspective, is the disclosure of Office Live Workspaces and number 2 is rebranding of the...

We've mentioned before the idea of creating a custom application that sits on top of Office Live and is tailored to meet the needs of a specific "vertical" industry such as real estate, construction or retail. Our technical evangelist Rohit Puri has created...

Just wanted to drop a line out here to let people know what's up. We're busily working on enhancements for Office Live as you might have guessed, and with the summertime and a kitchen remodel keeping me busy or outdoors, I haven't had much chance to post...

Charting is one area that we've wanted to see improve in Office Live. Fortunately, since enough of our platform is opened up, developers can take it upon themselves to do some charting work if they need it for their customers. Darren Johnstone has...

I caught up with a former coworker of mine who left Microsoft to do a startup last fall. His company, TalentSpring.com has finally come out of "stealth mode" where their patent applications are filed and they start doing the PR announcements. If you...

Our platform team has a couple training sessions coming up in the next few weeks that some of you may be interested in participating in. Don Campbell posted more information on his blog , but the short version is that we have 2 sessions, one in Boston...

A pretty cool mashup courtesy of our devs Katy and Albert (who you may be familiar with from his screencast videos ). There is a complete writeup coming soon on the Office Live team blog , but since the sample is already posted, I wanted to get the word...

Heads up, there is a new code sample that shows you how to use the Windows Live ID Client SDK and the Office Live Discovery Web service to authenticate and talk to Office Live's business applications & workspaces. This can really open up a lot of...

We've heard before that there are some gaps in the web services that are offered as part of Office Live. For the most part, we allow you to use many of the web services from Windows SharePoint Services v3 on which our business applications & workspaces...

Office Live recommends SharePoint Designer as the premier development tool for building composite applications and enhancements to the Office Live Business Applications. I think I've mentioned that here before. Well, our friends on the SPD team have created...

Tara and Rajesh from our team discuss and demo Office Live in the latest .NET show. Check it out! Tara spends quite a bit of time focusing on developer scenarios and gives a nice demo of both web hosting features and the applications platform area...

Our esteemed colleague from the Developer Platform Evangelism team, Don Campbell created what he calls a mind map of Office Live . It's a really neat way to visualize all the pieces that make up the Office Live Application Platform... from the technology...

Hey folks, it's been awhile since I've posted. We're busily working on some new features for the Office Live application platform for our next release. I'm writing specs, doing screenshots, use case diagrams, etc. etc. etc. Hopefully we'll get some of...

Just heard about the update release of the Windows SharePoint Services v3 SDK and also something called the Workflow Starter Kit. I don't know anything about the Workflow Starter Kit, but it sounds pretty helpful. The big question in my mind is what relevance...

Just as we were preparing to write a blog post on our team blog about a new code sample, we got scooped by microsoft-watch.com ! Joe Wilcox must have been keeping an eye on the download center and noticed the new Office Live Contact Map sample is now...

In the latest version of Office Live we introduced a new feature called Data Sharing. Essentially this acts as a pipeline between your public web site and web pages and your private site Business Applications on Office Live. You can use Data Sharing to...

Hey folks, just in case you missed them, our esteemed developer Albert Shen has produced several screencast videos that are now posted on Channel 9. They're quick instructions on how to work with SharePoint Designer to create solutions for Office Live...