Live Services

Synchronizing Life

Live Framework
Overview
Agenda Live Services
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• Background
• What is Live Framework
• Example experience
The state of the world Live Services
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• People are increasingly “on-the-go”

• They are using more devices
• Connectivity is proliferating
• Life-styles and work-styles are
blending
• They are working and playing together
more digitally
Increasingly Expecting – Demanding –
Complete End-to-end Experiences…
Market & Technology Trends Live Services
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“Experience first” clients Platform point solutions

• iTunes / ITMS • Cloud storage
• Live Photo Gallery / Flickr • Offline application
• Live Mail / Photo mail • Device synch and access
• Office / Office Live • 3rd party extensibility
Workspace
• Outlook / Salesforce Outlook
Edition

What if you had one integrated platform designed to

support the rich client experience in a standard, open
way?
Getting off the island … Live Services
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• Connected experience through services

and devices working together

• Connectivity and communication is

everything

Live Framework:
Connecting devices, data and applications through a
consistent, approachable framework
Live Services Live Services
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Live Services
User-centric
Identity Contacts Files Calendar ...
Data

User-centric Resource App Device

Model Sync Mgmt Mgmt
Services

• Resource Model: Extensible, user-centric data store

• Sync: User-centric data synchronization
• App Management: Discover, provision, & share apps
• Device Management: Management of a user’s devices
Key Concepts Live Services
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• Live fx is the uniform way for

programming Live Services
– any platform,
– any programming language,
– any application or device.
• Live fx makes it easy to build software
+ service applications
• .NET developers can use the Live fx API
Kits to build applications
Live Framework Live Services
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Libraries

Resource Model

Open formats, protocols and operations

Tools & Services

Communicatio
Core Data ns
App Model

Live Operating Environment

Live Framework Design Principles Live Services
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• User-centric to the core

• Software plus Services distributed
platform
– Universal reach + “experience first”
– Design for humans and code
• Internet scale
• Re-use proven assets
What is Live Framework Live Services
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• Platform
– Data model and API for a S+S system
– Integration and symmetry between devices and
cloud
• Service
– Microsoft’s hosted instance of the Live Framework
• Software
– Client runtime for mesh-aware applications
– Servers for federated Live Framework components
• Sample application
– Demonstrating depth of Live Framework enabled
by the platform
Live Framework Scenarios Live Services
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Rich Reach
applications

• Integrate Live Services into your

applications
• Opt in to as much of the Live Framework
as you like
 DEMO
Live Services
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Blockbuster favorites
Live Framework Nutshell Live Services
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Federated
Services Synchronized Notification Connectivit
Directory Authentication
Cloud

Storage s y

Federated
API Services Storage

Synchronized Notification Connectivit

Runtime

Directory Native
Client

Storage s y
Integratio
n

API Services
Understanding Live Framework: Live Services
Synchronizing Life

• Key benefits:
– Distributed system for data replication
– Designed for “optimize online, enable offline” experience
– Symmetric API for service<->service and app<->service
– Flexible data model to suit application needs
– Microsoft-hosted datacenter and operations
– Guaranteed communications regardless of topology
– Great toolability

• Target platform applications:

– Traditional client applications (e.g., Office, Photo Gallery, Media
Player)
– New classes of connected applications (e.g., Media Center, Zune)
– Rich interactive applications (e.g., New York Times Reader,
MetaCafe)
Understanding Live Framework: Live Services
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LiveOperatingEnvironment

Mesh Contacts Profiles ...

MeshObjects Devices News

NewsItems

Members

DataFeeds

DataEntries
Understanding Live Framework: Live Services
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• APIs: REST
• Resource model: Feeds
• Symmetric client/cloud programming
model
– GET https://developer.mesh-ctp.com/v1.0/
{Id}/ MeshObjects/{id}
– GET https://localhost:300/v1.0/{Id}/
MeshObjects/{id}
• Strongly typed managed code wrappers
for simplified access
• Pub/sub support for pushing notifications
Live Framework Platform In Live Services
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• Live: Web Desktop and Extender

• Synchronized files and discussion
across device mesh
• Seamless online/offline client
experience
• P2P communication between devices
• Strongly-secured remote access
• App deployment
 Experience
Live Services
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demos
Share file across devices
Access apps across the internet
Extend windows to the web and web to
windows
Demo recap Live Services
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• Live Folders
– Share and synchronize your information
automatically across all your connected
devices
• Live Remote
– Access to any application or device
• Live PC
– Browser based experience that enables access
to your applications and information from
anywhere
Questions?
Live Services
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