The beauty of services is that it provides the ability to add new features rapidly and discretely.  I was playing around with some of my photos on http://home.live.com earlier and when looking at an album’s thumbnails it gave me an option to install...

Paul has some interesting stats about Media Center following CES last week: CES is the first consumer showcase of Windows Media Center in Windows 7 .  Windows 7 includes a number of enhancements for Windows Media Center, including the new Electronic...

  Dr Angus and I have been working hard on new sessions for Mix.  Some of them have been published today over here:  http://2009.visitmix.com/Agenda/Sessions.aspx Make sure you register early and I’ll see you in Vegas! :-) Mesh-Enabled...

For those of you who are busy developing applications for Mesh using Live Framework, you will be aware of the problem that until now you couldn’t run the Mesh Beta Client at the same time as the Live Framework CTP.  Fortunately, we’ve put together...

Running up to Christmas we dished out quite a few new Live Mesh Tokens to people who were waiting in the line.  To sign up for a developer account (enabling you to code against Live Mesh and Live Framework) you needed to visit http://lx.azure.microsoft...

As Steve Ballmer announced last night at CES , Windows 7 Beta 1 is now available! On Channel 9 and Channel 10 , we are planning to publish a series of videos on Windows 7 readiness for enthusiasts, partners, and developers, including the following videos...

Just drafted a new bio, interested to get your feedback! James Senior ( http://www.jamessenior.com ) James is based in Seattle as the Technical Evangelist for Live Services at Microsoft. Live Services provide both amazing online experiences for 500 million...

Last night I was at the Crunchies (Oscars for Technology) and watched Ray Ozzie and David Treadwell pick up the award for Best Technology Innovation at the Crunchies award ceremony in San Francisco. It was a great night for a number of reasons. ...

I loved Ray’s acceptance speech last night at the Crunchies when we picked up the award for Most Innovative Technology 2008 for Live Mesh .  This line has been picked up a lot in the press and I think it is actually quite beautiful: “When we are...

Media Center on Windows 7 is simply stunning, check out Ben Reed from Microsoft do the demo: Oh and if you’re not familiar with Windows Media Center, it’s been around for a while now and is one of the best products we have – here is the history: Evolution...

It’s always interesting to read what your competition think of you.  None more so when your technology is new and you’ve just gone and pitched it to the world at PDC.  Ryan Barrett works for Google on their App Engine and he’s written his thoughts...

I wrote recently about the Windows Live slipstreaming of features and how it’s nice to get visibility of what’s going on in terms of the software that I consume on the internet.  Windows Live Mail today let me know there were three changes that I...

If you didn’t catch CES tonight, Ballmer kicked off his first CES keynote with some SMS messages he may (or may not) have received prior to the event.  I laughed out loud reading Gates, Yang and Blagojevich.  Good form Ballmer, good form. Courtesy...

This week I’ve been exploring more and more of the Live Framework and playing around with building some demos and samples.  To help me out I’ve found the Live Framework Walkthrus really useful: Walkthrough Resource Model and Feeds Walkthrough MeshApp...

Computerworld reported today that the number of visitors to internet sites has risen to 1 billion.  Here’s the lowdown: The Google family of sites led all online properties in December, with 777.9 million visitors, comScore reported. Microsoft was...

If you’ve played around with Windows Azure and/or Azure Services Platform you’ll know that getting tokens can be somewhat a pain.  Firstly, sorry about that, there’s all kinds of reasons why this is the case that I won’t bore you with here. Fortunately...