Wednesday, January 03, 2007 - Posts

Windows Live for TV

Welcome to the Windows Live for TV "Orbit" team blog

Windows Live for TV is an early beta 3D browser application that makes it easy to connect to your social network as well as friends and family from within Vista Media Center or IE7.0.  You're be able to view the best of Windows Live Spaces and communicate with Friends and Family over Windows Live Messenger 8.1 with voice & text chat as well as make a phone call.   

Media Center has brought the PC to heart of the home, adding Windows Live services to Media Center will make it easier to stay in touch with your social network.   Our goal in creating Orbit is to bring social networking to a new form factor that is both intuitive and fun to use.  We built the application in Windows Presentation Framework (.NET 3.0) and it will run withing Vista Media Center or directly in Vista hosted IE7.0 browser.

We appreciate you letting us know what you think of our early beta.  We have lots of features which we hope add to make for a better browsing experience. 

Learn more about Orbit... 

Remember TV?  We grew up with it and now it's growing with us. Sign-up for the beta if you have Windows Vista Media Center....

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Microsoft is hosting a 72-hour conversation, and you're invited.

April 30 — May 2nd, The Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas

On the frontiers of the Web, boundaries are blurring—developers and designers, advertisers and publishers, software and services, media and technology, TV and PCs, PCs and mobile devices, producers and consumers. The old order is getting a little MIXed up.

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It was a great conference last year, intimate enough that you got to talk to everybody. This year I asked them to get Ray Ozzie to speak and I'm happy to announce that Ray will be giving the Keynote, let's hope he hangs-out for a few days.

Scott Guthrie will be back again this year and you know how approachable and generous he is. Last year Scott looked at my name badge and recited my URL. After meeting Ray at the Web 2.0 conference he sent an email at my request to a Lotus Notes blogger who shares my name.

MIX07 Registration is now open