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My experience with web 2.0 applications is limited to Live.com homepage ( www.live.com ) and Start.com. In my experience, start.com was generally faster than live.com. There are various reasons for this, but one of the main ones is the amount of JavaScript
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This is exciting. Windows Live, for a long time has been confusing for a lot of people. Sites did not look the same and they did not work well with one another. That seems to be changing now. More and more services seem like they were built together.
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The product i work on, Live.com , is growing up. We now have a product tour . The product tour has some pretty, um, interesting videos. Here's one . I am not sure what to make of the marketing videos though. I do like the product tour. It makes is easy
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We have finally shipped our V1 product. Live.com is officially out of beta. You can find more details at our team blog . Over the last couple of months, our focus has been on improving the quality of the site, improving the performance, and improving
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I have been meaning to blog this for a while - I found an exhaustive list of web 2.0 companies a while back, but never got around to linking to it. In time for the long weekend, enjoy. I have been going through all the companies on this list, but it takes
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We had a new release yesterday where we fixed some major performance issues. We also fixed a bug with IE. We were using quite a few transparent .PNG files on the page. In IE6, this is rendered using an ActiveX object. For some reason, (mostly timing issues)
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We just released some new updates to Live.com. Sanaz just posted about the changes in our team blog . We have done some work to improve performance. One of the things Sanaz hasn't mentioned is compression. We have turned on compression which improves
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Live.com has been around for a little bit now. A lot of people have created gadgets for the site. You can see a list of them at MicrosoftGadgets . As of today, there are 247 gadgets available. I just wanted to publicize some of the stats we have. Mike
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I had taken my paternity break recently and spent a lot of quality time with my daughter. It was a little difficult to come back to work, but i think i am finally back in the thick of things. I apologize for not updating my blog in the meantime, but i
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We are getting pretty close to releasing another version of Live.com. I think this is about the best time in a product release. Everybody is working late and things are coming together nicely. You can actually start to see all the disparate features that
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We made some updates to the Live.com page late Friday. We are working on a much larger set of items, but we felt we could not hold this one off until our release. There are two main fixes, as far as i am concerned. The first fix is a UI change, which
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