Interviews

Interview with Stephen Lawler – Virtual Earth

Last week, Harrison got the chance to talk with Stephen Lawler, General Manager for Live Local/Virtual Earth product development, about their new release, making its debut this week.  He has some really interesting things to say about their vision for Virtual Earth, …

Round Table Discussion with Live Search

Last week LiveSide sat down with some people from Live Search to talk about a wide range of topics, including the switch from MSN Search to Live Search, the Windows Live name and brand, migrating MSN Search users and acquiring …

Exclusive: Interview with J.J. Allaire, Architect for Windows Live Writer

Now that the word on Windows Live Writer is out, LiveSide has the exclusive interview with J.J. Allaire, the founder of Onfolio and Architect of the Writer team. You may remember that Onfolio was acquired by Microsoft back in …

Windows Live Spaces Tour, Part 2: Gadgets

Spaces icon.gifWith Spaces being released yesterday (not without a few glitches), we continue to take a look at the new features with Part 2 of the audio tour, this time with Jay Fluegel on Gadgets. Definitely a program in …

Windows Live Spaces Audio Tour Part One: Social Networking

Spaces icon.gifMoz Hussain, Group Program Manager for Spaces, and Jay Fluegel, Lead PM, Spaces, invited me to come to Redmond last Friday and get a little preview of a couple of the new aspects of Spaces; Social Networking and …

Audio tour of Windows Live Mail m7

WLMail new icon.gifAt Gnomedex a couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to talk to Steve Kafka, program manager for Windows Live Mail. As part of that conversation, Steve showed me around "m7", the milestone 7 beta release of Windows Live …

Interview with Kurt Weber from Windows Live Expo

Expo pic logo.jpgWith the recent release of Windows Live Expo, we took this opportunity to sit down with Kurt Weber, Group Program Manager for Expo. In this interview, we talk about what the team learned from the Expo beta process, API's …

Interview with Steve Kafka from Live Mail

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At Gnomedex this past weekend, I got a chance to talk with Steve Kafka, Program Manager for Windows Live Mail. After being inside the conference most of the day, we went outside the Bell Harbor Convention Center into a …

Interview with the Windows Live Product Search team

This is the last in the series of interviews that Chris and I conducted while we were in Redmond for the Strategic Account Summit. Windows Live Product Search actually launched the day before we conducted this interview, so the team …

Interview with Ken Levy, Product Planner for the Windows Live Platform

Last week we sat down with Ken Levy, Product Planner for the Windows Live Platform to talk about how Microsoft intends to support 3rd party developers across Windows Live. In this interview Ken talks about why Messenger Add-Ins will …