Microsoft launches CTP for OpenID support in Windows Live ID

Yet another PDC announcement, and this one is from the Windows Live ID team. They’ve just opened up a Live ID test bed for those developers who want to start playing with Open ID integration. See for yourself.

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By Chris in News
October 27th, 2008 at 10:13 pm

Live Mesh: How Does Live Mesh Relate To Azure?

As Kip already mentioned, tomorrow we’ll hear a lot more about Live Mesh at PDC. Today the keynote was all about Windows Azure, a Services Platform for the cloud. But how does Live Mesh relate to Azure? …

By Sunshine in News
October 27th, 2008 at 9:49 pm

Windows Azure, PDC, Wifi, and more

Just spent the morning listening to Ray Ozzie and company unveil Windows Azure, a combination of Amazon EC2 type hosted services, Microsoft Online Services, and tools to hook them all together, sort of.  While not really Windows Live centric, Microsoft …

By Kip Kniskern in News
October 27th, 2008 at 8:06 pm

Liveblogging the keynote: Part one

Liveblogging the PDC Keynote Part One

OK Well I’m here at PDC, thanks to Jeff Sandquist and the Channel 9 guys LiveSide is sitting in a Barcalounger, not front row but dead center, Long should have pics up soon.  Jeff …

By Kip Kniskern in News
October 27th, 2008 at 3:14 pm

Live Image Search Adds Virtual Earth

If you search Images for major cities or landmarks on Live Search, you will now be able to see the results on a Virtual Earth Map. If available, like for the Space Needle, you will get a Bird’s …

By Sunshine in News
October 27th, 2008 at 2:59 pm

Dev.live.com Updated

LiveServicesJust to whet our appetites for what’s to come, the dev.live.com website has been updated, complete with a new logo. There’s no new content on there yet, but that will start showing up tomorrow after David Treadwell’s Keynote at PDC.…

By kip in Developer
October 27th, 2008 at 12:15 pm

Ray Ozzie opens up: our informal meetup with Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect

After today’s keynote, LiveSide, along with a small group of bloggers including Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror, Steve Gillmor of TechCrunchIT, Long Zheng, and some others that unfortunately I missed getting their names, were lucky enough to be invited to …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured News
October 27th, 2008 at 2:56 am

Windows Live Messenger: Telefonica’s Voype Web Calling Service Launches On Windows Live Messenger

A Messenger feature that got discontinued a little while back returns. VOIP! Telefonica, one of the largest telecommunication companies, brings their Web Calling Service Voype to Messenger in the following countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru, the United States, …

By Sunshine in News
October 25th, 2008 at 5:46 pm

Live Mesh: Required Update To Live Mesh Coming Next Week

Attention, attention all Live Mesh Tech Preview users!

Next week Live Mesh will release a required update! Meaning if you wish to continue using the product you have to update, else no synchronization or Remote Desktop!

Why a required …

By Sunshine in News
October 25th, 2008 at 5:11 pm

LiveSide Live from PDC! (we hope)

The long awaited PDC, Microsoft’s Professional Developer’s Conference, gets underway unofficially on Sunday, and then in full force on Monday October 27, with keynotes by Ray Ozzie, Steven Sinofsky, David Treadwell, and others.  We’ll be there, and we’re excited …

By Kip Kniskern in News
October 24th, 2008 at 8:04 pm