We're pleased to announce that the Live Search folks released a new toolkit today for creating dynamic 404 error pages. The Web Page Error Toolkit allows you to display custom error messages with search results that are generated from relevant keywords. Rather than generic "We're Sorry" pages with links to every subject area within your site, these custom error pages offer relevant choices to help your visitors find the information they want.According...
06-03-2008, 12:19 PM by JonB

The Windows Live Agents team has just released a new Visual Studio SDK and several enhancements to the Agents platform. Windows Live Agents v5.0 is a full public release that takes the features of the Colloquis SDK, a limited release which operated in a Java environment, and integrates them into a Visual Studio IDE plug-in. If you haven't heard of it, a Windows Live Agent is a smart computer application that operates over text messaging networks....
05-28-2008, 4:18 PM by JonB

We were really excited to hear the news that Web 2.0 developers awarded us high rankings across the board in the "Users' Choice: 2008 Web 2.0 Developer Programs” survey conducted by the Evans Data Corp. Though it has not been published yet on the Evans Data Corp site, there is a nice write-up you can read on Computerworld. Among all of the rankings, the high scores we received for the Tools/SDKs and Web Services categories really stand out. While...
05-12-2008, 5:38 PM by JonB

Since Amit Mital introduced Live Mesh last week, there have been a slew of posts & videos published about the Live Mesh platform. We thought we'd provide a round up from the various sources here. The Live Mesh Community Tech Preview that was released last week offers a glimpse of what is possible for consumers, but the platform will offer exciting possibilities to developers in the near future as well. Live Mesh is a...
04-29-2008, 6:58 PM by JonB

Update: Check out the Channel 9 Video with Ori Amiga on Programming the MeshThis isn’t my personal blog, so let me begin by introducing myself. I’m Amit Mital, General Manager of a great team of people that has created some really interesting technology that I’m excited to tell you about – Live Mesh. There’s been a bunch of buzz about “the mesh” since Ray Ozzie alluded to it at last month’s MIX Conference. As Ray said there, we’ve been exploring...
04-22-2008, 9:00 PM by amitm

The Virtual Earth team just released the latest update to the Virtual Earth map control. Of course, we’ve updated the docs, and you can see it in action with our interactive SDK. What's new? Here are the highlights:Enhanced 3D ModelsThe map detail for Las Vegas, NV; Phoenix, AZ; Dallas, TX; and Denver, CO features improvements in 3D model accuracy and resolution detail to reveal more buildings, small terrain features, building textures, and trees...
04-11-2008, 1:15 PM by JonB

Hi everyone, Neelamadhaba Mahapatro (Neel) here – I run Microsoft’s online identity service (Windows Live ID). Consumer safety, security and privacy are our top priority. Earlier this week a comment was left on Angus Logan’s blog, it got me thinking, and I want to share what we are doing to create phishing resistant systems. We are absolutely aware of the dangers of phishing on the Internet. We understand the probability of attack goes up when...
04-07-2008, 2:37 PM by JonB

Hey folks, John Richards here, Director of Windows Live Platform. Today Microsoft is announcing some significant developments to the Windows Live platform that demonstrate Microsoft’s commitment to data portability and giving users a choice of how to use and control their information. Building on MIX08 Earlier this month at MIX08, the Windows Live platform team announced a number of new and improved APIs and tools to help the developer community...
03-25-2008, 1:01 AM by Admin

Posted by George Moore, General Manager, Live Platform Services In the AtomPub protocol alignment section of last week’s blog posting by Dave Treadwell, he foreshadowed a “few more surprises in this area to be announced at MIX”. I wanted to take this time to more fully paint the picture of our work behind the scenes over the last few months in the context of the announcements at MIX08. For the first time ever we have a unified protocol and ...
03-12-2008, 7:00 PM by Admin

Last week David Treadwell announced a slew of new technologies for the Windows Live Platform, including a few “coming next week” items--which are now available. Today, we posted the documentation for Silverlight Streaming Beta, the Application Based Storage API Community Tech Preview (CTP), the ATOM-based Photos API (CTP), and an update to the Visual Studio Tools for Windows Live. Please take a look and take the APIs out for a spin. Also,...
03-05-2008, 5:02 PM by kevinle