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4月27日

Windows Live ID has shipped!

windows live ID has shipped! you wont really notice the change much at first, although some nice interface improvements will start to become visible in the next few weeks. For now, the only thing that is visibly different is that the sign-in page shows "windows live ID" at the bottom in tiny letters...but rest assured, the curtain willl soon be lifted.

Make sure you install the messenger 8.0 Beta refresh and install the "Windows Live Sign In assistant". It will enable some really cool sign-in scenarios in IE in the coming weeks (no firefox support yet).

Also, an interesting article, titled "I Pencil"

http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/rdPncl1.html

highlights the importance and amazing complexity of the infrastructure that we all take for granted. Ra Ra Ra, yay for the invisiible hand. (lol)

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4月18日

Talking about Windows Live ID whitepaper

Heres some information from my Team Blog on what it is that I actually work on during the day.

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Windows Live ID whitepaper

Fresh off the press on MSDN is our whitepaper on the Windows Live ID service. This is a great primer on Windows Live ID, how it is positioned within the Identity Metasystem and what you can look forward to in the future with respect to the platform.

Some excerpts to wet your appetite:

"The Windows Live ID service is the next-generation version of a system that does over 22 billion authentications per month and is used to access a large set of online services operated by Microsoft and its close partners"

"The current plan is that Windows Live ID will support both self-issued and third-party managed [InfoCards] as a mechanism to authenticate users when accessing Windows Live services. Subsequently, Windows Live ID will also issue managed cards to enable users to use their Windows Live ID with third parties."

"To simplify integration on both the server side and the client side, the Windows Live ID service will release software development kits (SDKs) later this year. In addition, the Windows Live ID service uses industry standard protocols. For cloud server-to-server scenarios, the Windows Live ID service exposes programmatic interfaces by way of SOAP services."

Whitepaper: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnlive/html/winliveidserv.asp

-Trevin Chow, Lead Program Manager

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4月15日

Office Live and Port Royal

As some of you may know,my brother Edmond has started a Seafood restaurant in Calgary called "Port Royal Seafood" along with the "Dockside Lounge" last year. Seeing as how the restaurant didn't have a web presence, i decided that this would be the perfect oppurtunity to try out MS Office Live, a new microsoft product that offers free domain name registrations and the ability to use thier templates and tools to create simple websites.

Heres what half an hour of mucking around can yeild...

http://portroyalcalgary.com/

not exactly cutting edge, but very functional. Pretty good for a few minutes of work and no financial outlay!

By the way, if you are ever in south Calgary, do check it out. Port Royal offers good seafood at reasonable prices and hang out at the dockside for a few beers, pool, Big Game Hunter, and Karaoke night once a month... no guarantees that the singing will be of good quality though :)

</end shameless plug http://portroyalcalgary.com/>

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