Welcome to EMC Consulting Blogs

There's some big announcements (in my opinion anyway) from Windows Live today. Read here:   David Treadwell on New and Updated Windows Live Platform Services http://dev.live.com/blogs/devlive/archive/2008/02/27/213.aspx   The highlights are: Messenger API that enables you to build your own Messenger client Contacts API ...

Three weeks ago I wrote this blog entry that raised a question mark over why Microsoft were coming out with two seemingly contradictory RESTful APIs (Astoria and Live Data) for exposing data. I linked to this forum posting where Federico Raggi from Microsoft stated that rather than being contradictory they were actually complementary. I questioned ...

Over the past year I've posted alot of content on this blog that is nothing to do with its main raison d'etre, that being Data Integration and all associated technologies. I've strayed into talking about things that have no interest to the people that may read my blog on a regular basis. Things such as Windows Live, Popfly, Zune. These ...

A few days ago I wrote about Skydrive and was critical of the fact that existing links no longer worked post-upgrade. I registered this bug at connect.microsoft.com where I said:The new interface looks great but I'm pretty angry that old links no longer work. If you want it proved to you then hit the links on this ...

I've spoken about Live Folders quite alot on here lately and some big news from that product team today is that they have dropped their working name and adopted "Windows Live Skydrive" as their name. Read about it directly from the SkyDrive team here and read more comment here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and ...

I am currently writing this blog entry on a flight somewhere over the USA using Windows Live Writer as my offline blogging tool. Anyone that has used it will tell you what a great tool it is for doing this. Currently Live Writer allows rich offline editing of blog posts. I think the fact that blogging tools such as Live Writer are not ...

Perhaps it really is over!! There was an interesting internal email thread within Conchango today which began with an email from Simon Knightley saying this:I recently came across Microsoft’s response to Google Earth, Microsoft Virtual Earth at http://maps.live.com/If you select the 3D option and install the active X control, you get ...

One month ago I published a review of Google Maps for Mobile and Windows Live Search for Mobile which you can read here. Today Gear Digest have published their own, much more detailed, comparison of the two as well as Yahoo's similar offering. Unlike myself who just did a feature-by-feature comparison Gear Digest make a firm ...

Version 2 of Windows Live Search for Mobile (WLS) has been released. Read the announcement here which contains screenshots and in this case a picture really does tell a thousand words. Here's the list of new features:Get movie timesSearch for restaurants and see ratingsWLS will now cache onto your storage card if you have ...

That's a question I started asking myself yesterday as I read this post from Yaron Goland. Here's a sprinkling from that entry:Sigh…. I know… I know… Microsoft… evil… proprietary… no cross platform… Windows über alles… etc. Whatever. Look folks, this is really easy. I work for ...