If you read John’s recent post, an , you now know that you can quickly tag the faces in your photos-- using either the contacts in your contacts list, or any name you want. So hopefully by now you’ve played around with people tags in , adding them to photos of your friends, family, and that One reason you tagged all those photos is that at some poin.. more »

Set your DVR to record National Geographic's new documentary: "Sunken Treasures of the Nile" and watch as they plumb the river's murky depths to uncover some amazing new discoveries. It begins airing tomorrow, August 3rd. Our friend Greg Downing from xRez Studio was part of the team that used photogrammetric techniques to document the artifacts, an.. more »

We've always had keyword (descriptive) tagging in Photo Gallery. Heck, we've had it in Microsoft photo products since Windows XP. So why add a whole new type of tag to Windows Live Photo Gallery? Because people take lots of pictures of people. Think about the photos that are most special to you. Let me guess— they have people in them, right? So it.. more »

Eric Doerr, he leads the Program Management team for Digital Memories (a.k.a. the Photo and Video team for Windows Live), blogged about the brand new Windows Live Movie Maker beta today over on the Windows Live “Wire”.  He covers a bit of Movie Maker history, some information about the new engine behind the scenes, rethinking the user inter.. more »

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Today the Photostynth team has released a major new feature and a slew of small improvements.   New Feature: Overhead View Have you ever wanted to look down on Mt Rushmore from directly above the Presidents? What about seeing the exact layout of Stonehenge from above? If you’ve used Photosynth you know that it automatically calculates a “cl.. more »

a few months ago he jumped right on it and within a few days built his Smugmug plug-in. If you’re a Photo Gallery user that also happens to use Smugmug to share photos AND videos, then this plug-in is for you! Check out the plug-ins download page (more plug-ins are coming soon). Anyway, enjoy Omar’s perspective. –Michael Palermiti Hi There! My nam.. more »

While you're waiting for the beta update to complete, The beta update is complete, but still: why not entertain yourself with the latest and greatest Live Mesh video content?  Posted fresh today: Ori Amiga's amazing Live MeshMobile (pronounced, Ori asks us to tell you, like 'BatMobile' :) demonstration:  Ori Amiga: MeshMobile Noah Edelstein gives a .. more »

Did you notice? We haven’t posted anything new here for awhile. We’ve officially stopped maintaining this blog. To get the inside story from the people who build Windows Live, check out the blog, where Windows Live engineers and executives blog about all the Windows Live services, how they’re built, and how we decide what to add or improve as we bui.. more »

Did you notice? We haven’t posted anything new here for awhile. We’ve officially stopped maintaining this blog. To get the inside story from the people who build Windows Live, check out the blog, where Windows Live engineers and executives blog about all the Windows Live services, how they’re built, and how we decide what to add or improve as we bui.. more »

Since rolling out the latest Live Mesh release this afternoon, a number of customers have reported trouble installing the Live Mesh for Mobile software. We have identified the problem and are currently working on a new build. We don’t yet have an estimated time of availability, but we will post updates here, on the blog, as we know more.   In the.. more »

Did you know that Microsoft’s Windows Live has been actively embracing the emerging About a month ago, I traveled to Portland, Oregon, USA to participate in a “Federated Social Web Summit” organized the day before . We spent the morning with each participant demo’ing their project or protocol for about five minutes. Below is my attempt to re-forma.. more »

Last week Omar Shahine blogged about our new privacy features in Windows Live , where we’ve made some improvements that we hope you will appreciate and find both powerful and easy to use. We also recently announced Windows Live Messenger Connect , an exciting new feature set that enables you to easily connect to Windows Live from third party ap.. more »

We're proud of the recent Live Framework CTP release, and we are excited to share our thoughts, tips, and insights with you. In this initial post to our new team blog, we want to provide you with some key links and info and let you know some of the subjects we’ll be addressing in the near future. What is the Live Framework? The Live Framework is th.. more »

Realtime Shared Experiences with Messenger ConnectCommunication and sharing has emerged over the past few years as a critical element making experiences more personalized and compelling across the web. Lots of sharing is done asynchronously (via activity feed or email), but for some things you want real time sharing (it is tough together .. more »

), the Senior Technical Product Manager for . As we lead up to the launch of Messenger Connect, I want to start a conversation with app developers and marketers. We are consolidating a few of our Windows Live developer related blogs into one place… here! We hope this blog will complement the blog, which Chris Jones describes as “ dedicated to soft.. more »

As we hear from more and more developers who have started using the Live Framework or who are trying to understand it, it’s clear that some of you would like us to expand more on what the Live Framework is, the problems we are trying to solve, and why developers should care about it. So, we have put together this whitepaper to help answer some of .. more »

Windows Live REST Explorer screenshotThe primary goal of Messenger Connect is to help web sites & apps grow their traffic and engagement, at a reasonable cost. To that end, the technical implementation and business terms have been designed to be predictable for web developers and marketers who are familiar with the social connections domain. First .. more »

Messenger Connect for sign-in/sign-upThere are over 500 million Windows Live IDs that are used every month. That is a lot of users who can sign into web sites. In addition to base level authentication you can also pre-fill registration forms with things such as the user’s email address, so that information doesn’t need to be manually typed agai.. more »

We are pleased to announce that we deployed an update to the Live Framework CTP. This update contains a number of fixes. Please see below for details. Thank you to the developer community for trying out the Live Framework CTP and taking time to submit your feedback. Many fixes made in this update were a result of the issues reported by the .. more »