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New York Times positive review of Office Live Small Business

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. In
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Introducing our new tech evangelist

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 . He
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Live ID goodies for Office Live developers

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

Lack of blogging...

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
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Flash charts for Office Live business applications

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 a blog

TalentSpring.com debuts, panacea for those hiring woes?

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 haven't
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Learn how to develop solutions for Office Live

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
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Mind Map of Office Live

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
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Virtual Earth Map + Office Live Contacts mashup

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
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Office Live vNext

It feels like the build-up to a big holiday around here. Everyone is frantically preparing the final touches on the new version of Office Live, due out very soon. If you already have an Office Live 1.0 Beta subscription, you've probably received a notice
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Blogging break

I've been taking a little break from blogging about Office Live topics in the last couple weeks. Not that there's not a lot going on, there is. That's probably the main reason I haven't been posting much because there's so much going on so quickly and
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MacGyver issue of Wired

I made the mistake of trying to read through the current issue of Wired Magazine this AM. It has Stephen Colbert on the cover, so I figured there must be something interesting in it, right? Wrong. The vast majority of this month's issue is a bizarre 'how
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What is Office Live... interview on Channel 9

Quick post to point you to a video interview the Office Live team just did with Channel 9 . Here's the direct link to the video . Check it out, especially if you want some high-level explanations of what Office Live is and where we think it will go in
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WPC Day 2 - the Big Dig

Day 2 in lovely Boston brought some shocking news. Several panels from the ceiling of one of the “Big Dig” connector tunnels had fallen the previous evening, crushing some unsuspecting motorists and killing one of the victims. This huge project has been
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Windows Live Gadgets SDK goodness

Keeping with the SDK theme I seem to be on in the last few weeks, this one just came across my desk. Windows Live Gadgets SDK has been released. Here's a link to their blog post announcing it, right here on MSDN! This stuff is cool. There is the cross-compatability
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