{"id":1281,"date":"2007-06-18T20:12:12","date_gmt":"2007-06-18T19:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/18\/windows-live-platform-discussion-with-koji-kato-and-danny-thorpe\/"},"modified":"2007-06-18T20:12:12","modified_gmt":"2007-06-18T19:12:12","slug":"windows-live-platform-discussion-with-koji-kato-and-danny-thorpe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/18\/windows-live-platform-discussion-with-koji-kato-and-danny-thorpe\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Live Platform Discussion with Koji Kato and Danny Thorpe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00ef\u00bb\u00bfWindows Live is best known as a collection of end-user offerings like Messenger, Spaces, Search, Hotmail and a whole bunch more. \u00a0It&#8217;s also in the process of evolving into a platform. \u00a0Koji Kato and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/dthorpe\/default.aspx\">Danny Thorpe<\/a>, from the Windows Live platform team, discuss with Catherine Heller a\u00a0Windows Live Technical Evangelist on Channel 9\u00a0their views on internet software and what it means to &#8220;componentize&#8221; Windows Live.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Koji sets some context by drawing an analogy to Office (00:02:27), and its early evolution from a set of end-user targeted apps to a set of components. \u00a0Beta versions of the <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.live.com\/contactscontrol\/v0.2\/default.aspx\">Windows Live Contacts Control<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.live.com\/spacescontrol\/\">Spaces Photo Control<\/a> (described by Danny around 00:11:37) represent some of the initial Windows Live components, and include customization plans (00:21:21), international\/localization support (00:19:13), and support for multiple browsers (00:18:15).<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nKoji Kato<\/em> is a Group Program Manager on the Windows Live platform team.<\/p>\n<p><em>Danny Thorpe<\/em> is Architect on the Windows Live platform team.<\/p>\n<p>The interview was conducted by Catherine Heller, Windows Live Technical Evangelist (who you may remember from her former Windows Vista evangelism days).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Check out the video <a href=\"http:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/showpost.aspx?postid=317385\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But Koji, why aren&#8217;t you blogging yet? you said at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/16\/windows-live-session-uk-2\/\">2nd Windows Live Session<\/a> in London last year that you would think about it! surely you haven&#8217;t decided not too! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00ef\u00bb\u00bfWindows Live is best known as a collection of end-user offerings like Messenger, Spaces, Search, Hotmail and a whole bunch more. \u00a0It&#8217;s also in the process of evolving into a platform. \u00a0Koji Kato and Danny Thorpe, from the Windows Live platform team, discuss with Catherine Heller a\u00a0Windows Live Technical Evangelist on Channel 9\u00a0their views on internet software and what it<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pull-left padding-top-25\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/18\/windows-live-platform-discussion-with-koji-kato-and-danny-thorpe\/\" class=\"btn btn-theme\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Windows Live Platform Discussion with Koji Kato and Danny Thorpe&#8221;<\/span> <i class=\"fa fa-fw fa-long-arrow-right\"><\/i> <\/a>  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}