Interviews

Hotmail POP3 access on the way: Omar Shahine explains

We spent the day today (Jan 13) on campus, talking to some of the people who have helped to bring you Wave 3.  In quite a coincidence, one of them was Omar Shahine, who we spoke to last fall when

Windows Live Wave 3: Our interview with Brian Hall part 2

In our second part of the interview, Windows Live General Manager Brian Hall gives us a quick demo of some of what’s new with Windows Live  In the demo, Brian shows us the What’s New feed, Photos, and Groups:

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Windows Live Wave 3: our interview with Brian Hall in 2 parts

We had a chance to talk to Windows Live General Manager Brian Hall about this “major release” of Windows Live.  In the first part, Brian goes over some of the major changes and new features we’ll soon see, talks about …

Live Mesh video interview parts 1 and 2: Abhay Parasnis and Jeff Hanson

Our coverage of PDC continues with some big announcements about Live Mesh coming out of LA.  Sometime this week you will be required to update Live Mesh, and after that will be introduced to some significant changes.  Beginning with very …

Windows Live Messenger Program Managers talk about Wave 3: LiveSide interview part 2 of 3

In part one of our interview, Alton Kwok talked about some of the new features in the new Messenger beta, including an interesting history of “the pawn”, and how it finally was replaced in Messenger Wave 3 with “the

Windows Live Messenger Program Managers talk about Wave 3: LiveSide Interview Part 1 of 3

Today I ventured to Microsoft’s Red West campus to talk to three Windows Live Messenger Program Managers; Alton Kwok, Brian Moudy, and Marisol Ontaneda.  It was great getting a chance to talk to them about Windows Live Messenger and Wave …

Windows Live Messenger Program Managers talk Wave 3: Part 3 of 3

In the first two parts of our interview, we talked to Alton Kwok and Brian Moudy.  In this part, we talk to Marisol Ontaneda about design, and then we get into an overview of what it means to be a …

Windows Live Writer Interview – Charles Teague

Catherine Heller has recently done an interview with Charles Teague, Lead Developer on the Windows Live Writer team. In the interview (which you can see after the jump) Charles talks about what Live Writer is, what blog engines it …

Our interview with David Treadwell of Windows Live Platform Services at Mix08

Microsoft is betting heavily on Software + Services, the concept that all the power of the desktop will not go away when services are introduced, rather that storage and computing power, local to the user, will continue to play a …

LiveSide asks Bill Gates a question (how cool is that?) – Read the full transcript

Just got the transcript of our hour with Bill Gates, so I wanted to get it up for you as soon as I could.  Bill started out with a little preamble about the future of computing, and then it was …