ONe of them that is … A peek inside one of Microsoft’s datacenters including a brief interview with Michael Manos :
Windows Live
December 10, 2008
December 05, 2008
Meet TBot, Your Windows Live Messenger translator
Meet TBot. Very handy tool in messenger, especially as it already supports many languages.
The Microsoft Translator team is excited to announce the new translation bot for Windows Live Messenger! This Messenger bot does translations for you. Just add mtbot@hotmail.com to your contacts and start chatting. You can have one-on-one conversations with the bot, or you can invite a friend and chat in different languages with the bot translating for you. As usual, remember that machine translation isn’t perfect – slang especially will give the engine trouble.
You can also access Windows Live Messenger on your smartphone to use the bot to translate simple sentences while you’re traveling to other countries!
The translator bot is localized into all of the languages for which we have translation support on www.windowslivetranslator.com:
- English to/from:
- Arabic
- Chinese Simplified
- Chinese Traditional
- Dutch
- French
- German
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Portuguese
- Russian (RUS->ENU only)
- Spanish
- Chinese Simplified <-> Chinese Traditional
December 03, 2008
25 GB “USB” stick .. for free
Windows Live Skydrive, your “USB” stick in the cloud has been upgraded yesterday from 5 GB storage to 25 GB
December 01, 2008
Common Craft Client Video: Windows Live.com
I’m a big CommonCraft fan. Very glad to see they’ve created a video for Microsft on Windows Live .. how cool things come together …
Common Craft was hired by Microsoft to help explain the new Windows Live.com. We were so excited to work with a local organization on a project that highlights a new direction for the company.
Source: Client Video: Windows Live.com
November 14, 2008
Windows Live Skydrive : 25GB
He’s back : gratis 25GB “USB Stick”
… Tweakers: Microsoft schroeft gratis opslag Skydrive op tot 25GB
Microsoft heeft de capaciteit van zijn online opslagdienst Skydrive vervijfvoudigd naar een totaal van 25GB. Bovendien krijgt Windows Live een opfrisbeurt waarmee de afzonderlijke diensten verder geïntegreerd worden.
In februari van dit jaar introduceerde Microsoft Skydrive, een webopslagdienst die de gebruiker de beschikking over 5GB opslagruimte biedt. De capaciteit wordt nu uitgebreid naar 25GB. Met de mogelijkheid om foto's als diavoorstelling te presenteren en afdrukken te bestellen, legt het softwarebedrijf de nadruk op het delen van foto's. Ook het bestandsbeheer van Skydrive is verbeterd, met onder meer de mogelijkheid bestanden tussen mappen te kopiëren of te verplaatsen. Gebruikers van de dienst in de Verenigde Staten, Denemarken en Ierland kunnen bovendien een complete map als zip-bestand downloaden, een feature die ook voor gebruikers in andere landen uitgerold zal worden. …
Source: Tweakers.nl
De Skydrive weblog, Tweakers en een aantal andere sites meldden (eer)gisteren al dat het Windows Live platform een grote update zal ondergaan. Meer integratie en heel interessant meer opslag. Mijn eigen account is trouwens nog niet ge-upgrade naar 25GB. Ik verwacht dat dit in de komende weken gerealiseerd wordt. Als ik daar meer over hoor lees je het hier …
October 28, 2008
Windows Live ID Becomes an OpenID Provider
Another big step in interoperability for Microsoft. Windows Live ID, one of the most widely used authentication mechanisms becomes and OpenID privider … This is just one of the many announcements made at PDC this week
Windows Live ID Commits to Support OpenID
Beginning today, Windows Live ID is publicly committing to support the OpenID digital identity framework with the announcement of the public availability of a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the Windows Live ID OpenID Provider.
You will soon be able to use your Windows Live ID account to sign in to any OpenID Web site!
The Windows Live ID OpenID Provider (OP) enables anyone with a Windows Live ID account to set up an OpenID alias and to use that alias for identification at an increasing number of OpenID 2.0 relying party sites-for example: Plaxo, Pibb, StackOverflow.com and Wikispaces.
What is OpenID?
The official answer from the OpenID Foundation (the guardians of the OpenID specs) is that "OpenID is a free and easy way to use a single digital identity across the Internet." (Source: http://openid.net/)
OpenID is an emerging, de facto standard Web protocol for user authentication. It helps eliminate the need for multiple user names across different Web sites, thereby simplifying a user's online experience. Stated another way, you can reuse your OpenID account at different Web sites without having to create a new user name and password at each site you use.
More information about OpenID is available at http://openid.net.
Windows Live ID OpenID Provider - October 2008 (CTP)
The initial release is a Community Technology Preview (CTP) Release in the Windows Live ID Integration (INT) environment. It is intended primarily for relying-party Web sites and developers of relying-party client libraries, to enable them to test the interoperability of their implementations against the Windows Live ID OP endpoint and flush out any bugs or incompatibilities.
Note that the Windows Live ID OP supports only the OpenID 2.0 protocol.
The Windows Live ID INT environment is separate from the main Production environment, and is for testing purposes only. If you have not already created a Windows Live ID user account for testing in INT, you can do so at http://login.live-int.com/.
After you have your Windows Live ID account in INT, go to https://login.live-int.com/beta/ManageOpenID.srf to set up your OpenID alias on that test account.
NOTE: INT accounts are for testing purposes only and are NOT intended to be permanent user accounts. They do not allow access to Windows Live services in Production.
Source: Microsoft Live Services blog
October 24, 2008
History in the making : Watch the PDC Keynotes LIVE Online
Bookmark www.microsoftpdc.com and watch live:
- 8:30-10:30 AM Pacific Time Monday, October 27 Keynote 1 –
Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David Thompson - 8:30-10:30 AM Pacific Time Tuesday, October 28 Keynote 2-
Ray Ozzie, Steven Sinofsky, Scott Guthrie and David Treadwell
September 29, 2008
Windows Live Platform Jumpstart training
Arie Leeuwenstein postte een interessante training op zijn blog :
Het Windows Live team zal op 17 en 18 november een Windows Live Platform Jumstart training verzorgen. Inschrijven en meer informaatie over dit evenenement kan via http://www.lpjumpstart.com.
The Live Platform at PDC
The Live Mesh team has a large number of sessions plannend for the PDC at the end of October in Los Angeles. As the team states, this confirmed Live Mesh as a platform. “Meshing” starts at PDC …
… We've had several posts here talking about Live Mesh as a platform, and we've said that we'll tell more of that story at our Professional Developer's Conference in October. The session list for PDC is now mostly complete, so you can start to get a sense of what we'll have to say about our platform:
Live Platform: New Developer Services and APIs
Live Platform: Building Mesh Applications
Live Platform: Mesh Services Architecture Deep Dive
Live Platform: Architecture and Advanced Programming Techniques
Live Platform: Building Applications with Social Data
Live Platform: FeedSync and Mesh Synchronization Services
Live Platform: Notifications, Awareness, and Communications
Live Platform: The Future of the Device MeshWe're working on a couple more sessions as well that we hope to unveil once the conference starts. And our VP, David Treadwell, is confirmed as a keynote speaker. …
Source: The Live Platform at PDC
April 11, 2008
TNT Post bezorgt rekeningen via Live Messenger
Windows Live Messenger is zo ingeburgerd dat dit soort oplossingen bijna een logisch gevolg zijn. Veel gebruikers zijn beter bereikbaar via bijvoorbeeld Live Messenger dan via hun traditionele brievenbus ...
... De samenwerking tussen TNT Post en Windows Live Messenger om post via 'De Digitale Brievenbus' van MSN te verzenden, is dinsdag van start gegaan. Salarisstrookjes en facturen kunnen voortaan via de messenger worden ontvangen. De twee bedrijven kondigden in november 2007 aan te gaan samenwerken om de instant messaging-client in te kunnen zetten als digitale brievenbus. ...
