Interviews

Windows Live Platform: our interview with Angus Logan

Angus Logan is the Senior Technical Product Manager for Windows Live Platform, a title he only dusts off occasionally.  Usually he’s too busy building out content for Windows Live Quick Apps, or creating cool tools like the Messenger IM control, …

Windows Live announcements: Windows Live Events launched; SkyDrive goes to 1GB – Our interview with David Fortin

Windows Live Events, set to launch at the time of this posting, 5pm PDT (Redmond time), is a new feature of Windows Live Spaces that makes it easy to create, manage, and share events using Windows Live Spaces.  Here …

Office Live Small Business: our interview with Michael Schultz

olsb With 450,000 domains in use with Office Live (now Office Live Small Business), its becoming clear that there is a market for a connected set of services helping small businesses to establish, maintain, and grow a web presence.  We …

POP3 on Hotmail Explained: we talk to Omar Shahine

POP3, a protocol for getting email from a server to a client, has been around a long time, but it hasn’t been generally available for Hotmail users. With the advent of so many different devices (think iPhone), however, a POP3 …

Office Live Workspaces: Our interview with Kirk Gregerson

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Office Live Workspaces, announced on Monday and set to go into beta in December, will provide workspace manipulation and storage from within Office products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and integration with Outlook), and a web browser interface with a viewer for …

Talking with Satya Nadella at Searchification

I had an opportunity to sit down with Satya Nadella, Corporate Vice President, Search & Advertising Platform Group, right after he presented at Searchification. We talked about the “super-positive” internal buzz within Microsoft about the new search, some strategies …

Windows Live Platform: Interview With Danny Thorpe and Angus Logan

At MixUK this week, I got a chance to sit down with Danny Thorpe and Angus Logan who are both very much involved with the Windows Live Platform. It was an interesting chat, finding out some new information, so take …

Windows Live Gallery: Interview with Chris Butler

Windows Live Gallery is the “one stop shop” for gadgets and add-ins for Windows and Windows Live.  The site has recently upgraded with a new look and some new content, and we talked to Lead Program Manager Chris Butler about

Windows Live Hotmail rolls out: our interview with Omar Shahine and Ellie Powers-Boyle

Windows Live Hotmail, a completely rebuilt web based mail client set to replace MSN Hotmail, started its rollout to selected markets this week.  This morning, I talked on the phone with two members of the Windows Live Hotmail team from …

Office Live Interview with Baris Cetinok

 

 

Office Live is set to come out of beta on Wed. Nov 15, and at the same time launch into beta in four new markets, United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Japan.  The set of services, aimed at very small businesses …