Windows Live ID to finally support OpenID

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

It looks like the Windows Live team is at it again. They’ve taken the plunge at PDC 2008 and committed to supporting the OpenID initiative. All Windows Live product teams are committed to supporting open standards where such standards are relevant to our work and when ...

How to get Windows Live Installer to work behind a firewall and proxy

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

If you are like me and obsessed about security, then you might find that your PC is sitting behind a firewall with no direct outbound web access. That is other than through an proxy server of some sorts like the Linux based squid. What happens is the Window Live ...

Windows Live Tools CTP

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

Angus Logan, Senior Technical Product Manager for Windows Live, just announced on his blog the first CTP for a cool set of add-ins for Visual Studio 2008 (formerly code-named Orcas) for getting started with Windows Live in your own applications. Windows Live™ Tools for Microsoft® Visual Studio® are ...

Silverlight Streaming plug-in for Expression Encoder

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

For those of you that were at Tech-Ed or at his SA Developer talk, Angus Logan demonstrated publishing Silverlight content directly into the Silverlight Streaming service cloud from inside Microsoft Expression Encoder. He has just announced that a new preview version of the plug-in is available for download along with ...

Tech-Ed 2007 day 3

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

Its honestly amazing how time flies when you are at Tech-Ed. I found that day three just flew past in comparison to day two; I suppose it has to do with the sheer number of sessions I attended. The first talk worth mentioning today was one by Angus Logan where ...

Tech-Ed 2007 day 1

Sunday, October 21st, 2007

Its the end of day 1 of Tech-Ed 2007 South Africa and I must say it is what I expected it to be. Apparently there are almost 2000 delegates here this year which is an impressive improvement over the 1600 delegates last year and the most delegates at any ...

Windows Live doesn’t support Vista x64, yet!

Saturday, September 15th, 2007

As you may have noticed earlier this month, Microsoft released new builds of the Windows Live series of programs that it seems are destined to form the Windows Live Suite 2008. The individual components and their build numbers are listed below for prosperity Windows Live Photo Gallery ...

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