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Skydrive to offer 25GB online space for free

You may have noticed a whole ton of announcements about Windows Live yesterday. There is plenty of very cool stuff - I love the new groups feature for example, pop aggregation on hotmail, the great new home page, having video preview pics and videos/picture Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 13, 2008 12:48 PM by ianm | 3 Comments
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Using any email address for your Windows Live ID

Did you know that you can use any email address to sign up for a Windows Live ID? Which means you can use any email address to access Hotmail or Messenger for example, or SkyDrive or Spaces or any other Windows Live Service. So if I have an existing email Read More...
Posted Friday, June 27, 2008 1:25 PM by ianm | 1 Comments

SkyDrive out of beta, and increased to 5GB of space

This is more great news - SkyDrive is now out of beta, and we've increased the amount of free storage space to 5GB. Read all about it here . Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 21, 2008 8:17 PM by ianm | 1 Comments
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Windows Live Developer Tools add-on and Visual Studio 2008

As you know, Visual Studio 2008 is now released and some of you may be wondering whether the add-on for Windows Live development works with the released version of VS2008. The short answer is yes, although there is one small tweak to the web config file Read More...
Posted Friday, November 23, 2007 9:26 AM by ianm | 1 Comments

Under the covers of the Windows Live QuickApps

I have mentioned the Windows Live QuickApps previously as I feel they're a really good way to get hold of operational source code of real working web applications to use in your own development projects. However it can be difficult for the uninitiated Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 21, 2007 12:04 PM by ianm | 0 Comments
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Visual Studio 2008 RTM now on MSDN subscriber downloads

In case you didn't see this elsewhere, if you're an MSDN subscriber you can download Visual Studio 2008 right away. And .NET 3.5 of course. All very cool. While there are a whole host of new features (and the Moth's blog is a great place to read about Read More...
Posted Monday, November 19, 2007 3:34 PM by ianm | 22 Comments

A New Job

Well the time has come for me to move on to something new. I'm still going to be working for Microsoft but I have been really fortunate to be accepted for a new role as the Windows Live Commercial Lead for the UK. What does this mean? There's a really Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 07, 2007 4:07 PM by ianm | 4 Comments
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Want to learn more about Windows Live?

For a developer, Windows Live offers a huge amount of potential, particularly for taking advantage of the success we've had with Hotmail and Messenger contacts (billions of records), and Windows Live Spaces. Plus the terrific service from Silverlight Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 31, 2007 4:53 PM by ianm | 1 Comments

Silverlight Streaming plug-in for Expression Encoder

We have just released a plug-in for Expression Encoder that makes it child's play to publish videos to your Silverlight Streaming account. What does this actually mean? The answer depends on what you know: For people who already know what Silverlight Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 31, 2007 10:30 AM by ianm | 3 Comments

Cool things you should know about Windows Live #5 - SkyDrive

What is it? I have blogged about SkyDrive before but I'd like to include it in this series for completeness. So what is it? Think of it as a USB stick on the web. It's 1GB of free storage that you can use however you like - but generally I find it really Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 23, 2007 2:47 PM by ianm | 0 Comments
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Cool things you should know about Windows Live #4 - Spaces Events

What is it? A new feature of Windows Live Spaces that let's you set up events eg you can set up a social gathering of some kind and invite people to it, and organise it all via your Space. Now you might say "but I've seen this before on xxx website" Read More...
Posted Monday, October 22, 2007 3:47 PM by ianm | 0 Comments
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Mix:UK session videos now available

We recorded most of the sessions at the recent Mix:UK event and have now made them available online for you to view / download. They're available at http://www.microsoft.com/uk/mix07/agenda.aspx , and worth a look. The Scott Guthrie sessions are particularly Read More...
Posted Friday, October 19, 2007 8:28 AM by ianm | 5 Comments

Cool things you should know about Windows Live #3 - Photo Stitching

What is it? Software that automatically joins up a number of separate photos of a scene into a single combined image, providing a panoramic view (as per above example). The new Windows Live Photo Gallery does just that, and does a great job. You simply Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 18, 2007 4:52 PM by ianm | 1 Comments
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Cool things you should know about Windows Live #2 - Virtual Earth 3D Videos

Here's the second piece about cool Windows Live stuff that's worth knowing about. What is it? I'm sure you're aware that Virtual Earth has a very cool in-browser 3D mode that really sets it apart from other web mapping solutions. You may also be aware Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 17, 2007 8:53 PM by ianm | 1 Comments

Cool things you should know about Windows Live #1 - Foldershare

We're releasing quite a bit of new stuff - some in beta, some final release - around Windows Live and I'm finding that much of the time people aren't aware of what some of the cool pieces are. So I decided it might be useful to blog a few of these, and Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 17, 2007 11:53 AM by ianm | 5 Comments
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