For users of the Web, being able to connect to friends and build social networks is becoming more important every day. Today, we are releasing the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit--a set of controls and libraries that enable you to connect Windows Live Messenger users and their friends with users of your Web site.  See a video demonstration. Windows Live Messenger is the most used instant messaging services world wide, with more than...
03-18-2009, 1:49 PM by kevinle

The Live Framework team has released the April 2009 CTP update for the Live Framework.  This update includes performance improvements, bug fixes, and improved functionality. For the details on what's new, see the release announcement on the Live Framework team blog. To learn more about the Live Framework, see dev.live.com/liveframework....
03-12-2009, 2:25 PM by kevinle

Next month, at the MIX09 conference, we’ll be releasing some cool new bits. As such, we’ll be deprecating a bit of our current functionality later this month (details below). Thanks to everyone who has tried our current technologies and given feedback; please know that it has helped us in developing the richer functionality we’ll be providing at MIX and beyond. While we can’t say much more about what we’ll be releasing right now, we think you’ll love...
02-16-2009, 8:30 AM by lsteam

Hey - this is Angus Logan from the Live Services team! Yesterday was Safer Internet Day and I was at the Open ID UX summit. There are two things close to my heart, internet safety and user experience, and I wanted to take a moment to post some things we've done recently at Microsoft to help make the internet a safer place: An update on enabling data portability by working with the largest library developers to make address book portability safer...
02-11-2009, 3:03 PM by lsteam

The Live Framework Tools team is pleased to announce the release of an update to the Community Technical Preview (CTP). The January CTP update addresses top customer issues and includes a new update notification feature to notify you whenever the tools are updated.  For details about the fixes, check out the Live Framework blog and forum. ...
02-02-2009, 10:58 AM by lsteam

If you are a Drupal user and want to be able to show your Windows Live Messenger online presence, Coworks has a module for you. Coworks attended the Microsoft Web Hosting & Developer Roadshow in Belgium in December 2008, and decided to build a module for Drupal that takes advantage of Live Services. Coworks, who actually specialize in PHP custom development and modules for Drupal, learned that Live Services can be accessed using standard REST...
01-27-2009, 12:10 PM by jaredp

Ray Ozzie and David Treadwell accepted the Crunchie award for Best Technology Innovation/Achievement on behalf of the Live Mesh team....
01-09-2009, 10:08 PM by alogan

DeepEarth is a new, open-source project that integrates Microsoft Virtual Earth with the Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 platform, making it easy to add an interactive, Silverlight 2.0 map to your application. Get all of the code and a full description of the features from the DeepEarth site on CodePlex: DeepEarth is a mapping control powered by the combination of Microsoft's Silverlight 2.0 platform and the DeepZoom (MuliScaleImage) control. At its core,...
12-23-2008, 9:47 AM by JonB

Just a quick note that we will be winding down our Community Technology Preview of the Windows Live Spaces Photo API and the Windows Live Application Based Storage API in the next couple of days and we will be turning off those API endpoints. The Photos API CTP especially has been extremely useful for us, as we learned a ton about the functionality developers want and previewed our first AtomPub endpoint – this AtomPub endpoint drove some of the...
12-01-2008, 6:28 PM by alogan

There has been a lot of excitement and questions about the Live Framework since it was announced at the Professional Developers Conference. To help understand it and share tips, knowledge and code, the Live Framework team has started a new team blog. Subscribe to the feed and make sure to check out their first post "Hello from the Live Framework Team" to learn what their plans are and to take part in the growing community. The Live Framework team...
11-14-2008, 10:05 AM by JonB