
Mix 08 – Windows Live Platform
Angus Logan, Sr. Technical Product Manager from Windows Live platform presented on:
- 400 million live ID users, 1bn authentications / day
- All services of Windows Live free upto 1 million users / month
- Today you have to go login.live.com to sign in, you can customize the page for select msn/microsoft sites only. Later 3rd party sites will be allowed to do this
- Windows Live tools for Visual Studio makes it super easy to implement Live Platform
- Windows Live you can associate with your local user/password store
- You can share your Windows Live Contacts Ids safely and under control to the sites you want to
- Increased Silverlight streaming hosting capacity for free
- ADO.NET Data Services (aka Astoria) which consumes AtomPub service end points for Application Base Storage, Photo API, LINQ to cloud capabilities
- Check out the new version of dev.live.com for new 7 Quick-Apps which are open source that are end to end scenarios.

