As David Treadwell announced yesterday, we are starting to align the Windows Live services interfaces to use the AtomPub protocol, and to have a uniform set of conventions that are shared across internet services and the Project Astoria bits. What...

Mix is one of my favorite events. It's a different kind of conference, many perspectives all in one place. Since it's all about the web, the Astoria team couldn't miss Mix 2008 . Mike , Andy and myself will be there giving talks, making announcements...

Jon Udell wrote a brief piece on how data is locked on servers behind UIs that were not designed for data sharing. He views this as "data friction"...it's just the perfect way to describe the problem. I couldn't agree more with Jon's take. I would...

Greg is a great interviewer, I'm sure you'll enjoy this conversation. In this occasion we did a bit of history around LINQ, talked about LINQ and the Entity Framework with a some of a DBA perspective, and then we discussed Astoria (the ADO.NET Data Services...