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• Windows Live Dev announcements

  There's some big announcements (in my opinion anyway) from Windows Live today. Read here: David Treadwell on New and Updated Windows Live Platform Services http://dev.live.com/blogs/devlive/archive/2008/02/27/213.aspx The highlights are: Messenger API Read More... Posted 28 February 2008 18:47 by jamie.thomson | 1 Comments Filed under: Windows Live, Microsoft, Astoria, ADO.Net Data Services

• Astoria and Web3S converge

  Three weeks ago I wrote this blog entry that raised a question mark over why Microsoft were coming out with two seemingly contradictory RESTful APIs (Astoria and Live Data) for exposing data. I linked to this forum posting where Federico Raggi from Microsoft Read More... Posted 20 September 2007 23:40 by jamie.thomson | 1 Comments Filed under: Windows Live, Data Integration, Astoria, ADO.Net Data Services

• Explore The Space

  Over the past year I've posted alot of content on this blog that is nothing to do with its main raison d'etre, that being Data Integration and all associated technologies. I've strayed into talking about things that have no interest to the Read More... Posted 14 August 2007 04:09 by jamie.thomson | 4 Comments Filed under: Windows Live, Zune

• Skydrive: Poor communication doesn't bode well for the future.

  A few days ago I wrote about Skydrive and was critical of the fact that existing links no longer worked post-upgrade. I registered this bug at connect.microsoft.com where I said: The new interface looks great but I'm pretty angry that old links no Read More... Posted 13 August 2007 17:45 by jamie.thomson | 0 Comments Filed under: Windows Live, SkyDrive

• Windows Live: Folders becomes SkyDrive

  I've spoken about Live Folders quite alot on here lately and some big news from that product team today is that they have dropped their working name and adopted "Windows Live Skydrive" as their name. Read about it directly from the SkyDrive Read More... Posted 09 August 2007 18:47 by jamie.thomson | 3 Comments Filed under: Windows Live, Live Folders, SkyDrive

• Will blogging tools become more than blogging tools?

  I am currently writing this blog entry on a flight somewhere over the USA using Windows Live Writer as my offline blogging tool. Anyone that has used it will tell you what a great tool it is for doing this. Currently Live Writer allows rich offline editing Read More... Posted 29 July 2007 17:07 by jamie.thomson | 1 Comments Filed under: Inane Waffle, Windows Live, Writer

• Virtual Earth, calling Side Street. Come in SideStreet. Over...

  Perhaps it really is over!! There was an interesting internal email thread within Conchango today which began with an email from Simon Knightley saying this: I recently came across Microsoft’s response to Google Earth, Microsoft Virtual Earth at Read More... Posted 27 July 2007 13:36 by jamie.thomson | 2 Comments Filed under: Windows Live, virtual earth, live maps, google, Sidestreet, streetview, HDView, Photosynth, Seadragon

• Mobile search clients reviewed

  One month ago I published a review of Google Maps for Mobile and Windows Live Search for Mobile which you can read here . Today Gear Digest have published their own, much more detailed, comparison of the two as well as Yahoo's similar offering. Unlike Read More... Posted 27 July 2007 00:12 by jamie.thomson | 0 Comments Filed under: Windows Live, Microsoft, live maps, google maps, google, yahoo pipes, gmm, wls

• Windows Live: v2 of Windows Live Search for Mobile hits the shelves

  Version 2 of Windows Live Search for Mobile (WLS) has been released. Read the announcement here which contains screenshots and in this case a picture really does tell a thousand words. Here's the list of new features: Get movie times Search for restaurants Read More... Posted 12 July 2007 20:40 by jamie.thomson | 0 Comments Filed under: Windows Live, Microsoft, live maps, google maps, wls

• Will Windows one day be free?

  That's a question I started asking myself yesterday as I read this post from Yaron Goland. Here's a sprinkling from that entry: Sigh…. I know… I know… Microsoft… evil… proprietary… no cross platform… Read More... Posted 05 July 2007 22:16 by jamie.thomson | 2 Comments Filed under: Windows Live, Microsoft, windows

• Live Folders cometh!

  For those of you that don't read the same RSS feeds as me, Live Folders is now available as a limited beta to the first 5000 people to apply. This means that 5000 people can upload files but anyone in the world can download the public-facing ones. Read More... Posted 01 July 2007 17:35 by jamie.thomson | 1 Comments Filed under: Windows Live, Live Folders, SkyDrive

• Mobile Maps

  Google have created quite a stir with their Google Maps for Mobile tool (my colleague Keni Barwick has talked about it here ) but did you know that Microsoft have had a very similar tool called Windows Live Search for Mobile available for alot longer? Read More... Posted 26 June 2007 06:15 by jamie.thomson | 5 Comments Filed under: Windows Live, Microsoft, live maps, google maps, google, gmm, wls

• SharedView: What's the skinny?

  Ever heard of SharedView? Its a new tool (currently in beta) that Microsoft are bringing out to offer remote sharing of applications and desktops. I gave it a go today and was most impressed, managing to remotely control my home PC from my desk at work Read More... Posted 26 June 2007 04:11 by jamie.thomson | 2 Comments Filed under: Windows Live, Microsoft, SharedView

• Get alerted when I update my blog

  If anyone is at all interested you can now get automatically notified when I post new blog entries to http://blogs.conchango.com/jamiethomson . You can get alerted via email or, if you use Windows Live Messenger, via an instant message. Click the button Read More... Posted 25 June 2007 04:23 by jamie.thomson | 0 Comments Filed under: Windows Live

• Windows Live: Search Macros in Messenger

  A few weeks ago I published information about a Live Search Macro that I had built to search for for SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) related community content. You can read about it here and try the macro out for yourself here . That's not Read More... Posted 17 June 2007 09:08 by jamie.thomson | 0 Comments Filed under: Windows Live