Venkatarangan TNC

Angus Logan, Sr. Technical Product Manager from Windows Live presented on:

400 million live id users, 1bn authentications / day
All services 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 today
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
They have increased the 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 apps that are end to end scenarios.