Title: Meeting and chat with Angus Logan
Slug: meeting-and-chat-with-angus-logan
Date: 2007-10-18 15:42:00
Author: Kartones
Lang: en
Tags: Development, Windows Live Agents
Description: A chat with Angus Logan, Microsoft's Product Manager of Windows Live Platform, discussing Windows Live services, Silverlight, web applications, and upcoming features in the battle with Google.

<p> Today, and thanks to <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/davidsalgado/">David Salgado</a>, I had the opportunity to chat with <a href="web.archive.org/web/20060112000111/http://blogs.msdn.com/angus_logan/">Angus Logan</a> (Product Manager of Windows Live Platform) at Microsoft Ibérica.</p> <p align="justify">We talked about Windows Live services and a bit of Silverlight and Angus showed some really really cool web applications, mashups and other stuff that impressed me a lot.</p> <p align="justify">Seems that Microsoft is taking seriously the battle with Google, I just hope all of this to become public ASAP.</p> <p align="justify">One of the features I was waiting for and finally could see was Windows Live Messenger directly via web, signing on and using it directly from a webpage! You can read more about it and see some screenshots <code>http://blogs.msdn.com/angus_logan/archive/2007/09/14/windows-live-messenger-im-control.aspx</code> and <code>http://www.liveside.net/blogs/main/archive/2007/09/13/messenger-presence-feature-coming-soon.aspx</code>.<br></p> <p align="justify">He showed us his profile on <a href="http://www.sportsdo.net/">SportsDo</a> (updated in real time), some Silverlight streaming websites, Virtual Earth mashups, Windows Live ID... We talked about Windows Live Agents too (and he told me some really interesting info }:)</p> <p align="justify">I can't blog about some of the features I've seen, but some of them are going to be very cool.</p> <p align="justify">He gave me a bunch of videos and slides from his Mix UK event so I've got something to read this weekend :P</p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify">A really nice experience, hope to have more like this soon :)</p><p align="justify"> </p><p align="justify"><b>Update</b>: Added links to more info about Messenger IM Control. Thanks Angus!<br></p>