Windows Live ID deployment
Question #1: What service has over 300 million users and does nearly a billion authentications per day?
Answer: Windows Live ID!
Question #2: What service is being deployed right under your nose, while still maintaining its stellar availability?
Answer: Windows Live ID!
That's right, we’re nearly complete with our deployment of the Windows Live ID service! It's a good thing that you haven’t noticed, otherwise we would have been in serious trouble since it would have meant something went wrong :)
The first thing to point out is that all the sign-ins will start going to our new URL, which is login.live.com. The second thing is that you'll notice in the footer of our "classic" sign-in UI are the words "Windows Live ID" :)
Our new sign-in experience that I've mentioned before will begin to light up over the next week or so at partners like
Live Mail,
Expo and
www.live.com. In fact, Lynn Ayres, one of the PMs on our team responsible for user experience and design of the new Windows Live ID Sign-in UI will be blogging very soon on this very topic in the next few days.
Stay tuned for more info!