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James Senior at Microsoft: Like a kid in a candy store
Farewell Technet!
I'm moving home to a new blog at www.jamessenior.com! This move also represents a rebrand for both...
Date: 05/18/2009
Code using Live Search APIs and win $10k
The Live Search team have just launched a cool competition in partnership with the Gnomedex...
Date: 04/20/2009
Client or the Cloud?
Paisano writes a punchy post about the death of desktop apps that I commented on and I wanted to...
Date: 04/10/2009
Brazil rocking Windows 1.01
Well their website for their IT Pro/Developer event is anyway! Check it out here! Way retro!...
Date: 03/24/2009
Announcing the Live Framework Explorer for Visual Studio
At PDC back in October we launched the Live Framework into CTP and with that we provided a cool tool...
Date: 03/19/2009
Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit
Just announced this at Mix09. Here’s what you need to know. Here’s where you need to go for...
Date: 03/18/2009
Live Framework SDK and Tools April CTP
What is the Live Framework? – see my video on Channel 9 Bit late to the press with this one, but...
Date: 03/14/2009
Live Messenger: our network is your network
I was doing some background reading on Live Messenger today via Wikipedia and it said that the first...
Date: 03/11/2009
LiveWIM using customized sign-in pages for Live ID
I blogged last week about the new documentation available for customizing the registration and...
Date: 03/09/2009
Customize Live ID Sign in and Registration experience
One of the biggest bits of feedback from customers that use Live ID on their website is that the...
Date: 03/06/2009
Imagine a killer Live Services app – win a pass to Mix09
This year I’m in the privileged position of being involved in possibly the greatest conference the...
Date: 02/17/2009
(Belated) Happy 25th Birthday Mac
I’ve been meaning to say happy birthday to the Apple Mac for the past few weeks and finally got...
Date: 02/16/2009
Live Services Jumpstart Training Videos
Couldn’t make it to the Live Services Jumpstart training earlier this year? Don’t fret, we’ve...
Date: 02/16/2009
The Microsoft Store
About bloody time. Hooray! Microsoft are going to do retail stores. I think every...
Date: 02/12/2009
Live Services How Do I Videos
Now in embedded flavor right here on the blog, enjoy: If you can see this, your browser doesn't...
Date: 02/12/2009
Azure Services “How Do I” Videos
Get your head around the Azure Services Platform in the videos we’ve just released on MSDN. ...
Date: 02/11/2009
Custom Branding for Live ID authentication and Data Portability
We announced a couple of cool things today on the back of Safer Internet Day which was yesterday and...
Date: 02/11/2009
Azure Services Training Kit
Last week we released the Azure Services Platform Training Kit. There’s content aplenty...
Date: 02/10/2009
Mesh and the Imagine Cup
This year Mesh is in the thick of the action with the Imagine Cup 2009! This year the...
Date: 02/10/2009
Live Framework Tools January CTP
The Live Framework Tools are for Visual Studio and make it very easy to build, upload and debug...
Date: 02/01/2009
Running Mesh Beta Client at the same time as Live Framework CTP Client
For those of you who are busy developing applications for Mesh using Live Framework, you will be...
Date: 01/30/2009
Windows Azure & Azure Services Platform Token Acquisition Explained
If you’ve played around with Windows Azure and/or Azure Services Platform you’ll know that getting...
Date: 01/28/2009
ComScore Internet Stats
Computerworld reported today that the number of visitors to internet sites has risen to 1...
Date: 01/27/2009
Software + Services explained
Date: 01/19/2009
Interesting Media Center Stats
Paul has some interesting stats about Media Center following CES last week: CES is the first...
Date: 01/15/2009
New Live Services sessions released for Mix09!
Dr Angus and I have been working hard on new sessions for Mix. Some of them have been...
Date: 01/14/2009
More Windows Live Slipstreaming
I wrote recently about the Windows Live slipstreaming of features and how it’s nice to get...
Date: 01/12/2009
Google’s thoughts on Azure Services Platform
It’s always interesting to read what your competition think of you. None more so when your...
Date: 01/12/2009
Why I’m installing Windows 7 on my Media Center right now
Media Center on Windows 7 is simply stunning, check out Ben Reed from Microsoft do the demo: Oh and...
Date: 01/11/2009
Ray Ozzie, the poet
I loved Ray’s acceptance speech last night at the Crunchies when we picked up the award for Most...
Date: 01/10/2009
Live Mesh wins Best Technology Innovation of 2008 at the Crunchies
Last night I was at the Crunchies (Oscars for Technology) and watched Ray Ozzie and David Treadwell...
Date: 01/10/2009
New Biography
Just drafted a new bio, interested to get your feedback! James Senior (https://www.jamessenior.com)...
Date: 01/08/2009
Windows 7 Videos – come get some!
As Steve Ballmer announced last night at CES, Windows 7 Beta 1 is now available! On Channel 9 and...
Date: 01/08/2009
Ballmer gets SMS from some interesting people
If you didn’t catch CES tonight, Ballmer kicked off his first CES keynote with some SMS messages he...
Date: 01/08/2009
Trouble logging into https://developer.mesh-ctp.com?
Running up to Christmas we dished out quite a few new Live Mesh Tokens to people who were waiting in...
Date: 01/05/2009
Live Framework Walkthrough Guides
This week I’ve been exploring more and more of the Live Framework and playing around with building...
Date: 01/02/2009
Slipstreaming features on Windows Live
The beauty of services is that it provides the ability to add new features rapidly and...
Date: 01/02/2009
Vote for Live Mesh
Hope you all have had a great Christmas and are looking forward to an exciting New Year’s Eve! ...
Date: 12/30/2008
How Live Mesh saved the day at Le Web
I’m back from Europe and Le Web in Paris! It was an interesting conference that had it’s fair...
Date: 12/15/2008
What is an Evangelist?
Courtesy of Simon and Index Cards
Date: 12/04/2008
Loving LeWeb – Attendees get free 30GB storage on Live Mesh
We’re pleased to announce that to celebrate LeWeb’08 and Microsoft’s official partnership...
Date: 12/04/2008
Live Mesh Blogger meetup in London
I’m calling out Steve Clayton and Steve Lamb on this one. Looks like if you have a hand in...
Date: 12/03/2008
TechCrunch and Facebook Federate: Privacy meltdown?
Facebook and TechCrunch are in a relationship. You can now sign in using your Facebook account and...
Date: 12/03/2008
Delighting customers – a business imperative
Having been in the USA for a little over a month, there can be a lot said for the customer service...
Date: 12/03/2008
Christmas Gifts from Zune
Got into the office today to find a nice gift from the Zune team waiting for me. They’ve given...
Date: 12/03/2008
Types of Live Framework Applications
There are two types of application that you can build using Live Framework: 1. Mesh enabled...
Date: 12/02/2008
Extending the Mesh Cloud
One of the common questions I’ve been getting from developers and IT guys about Mesh is how we are...
Date: 11/25/2008
Live Sync, Live Mesh, SkyDrive and why patience is a virtue
There has been some confusion recently about conflicting products and services coming out of the...
Date: 11/25/2008
New Plugins for Windows Live Photo Gallery
Yummy! No longer will I have to use the god-forsaken Facebook photo upload tool – thank you Will...
Date: 11/18/2008
Behind the scenes at PDC: The Keynote Timelapse
I’ve just uploaded this cool video which I got hold of internally that shows how the PDC08 keynote...
Date: 11/18/2008