by alogan via Windows Live for Developers on 12/2/2008 12:28:00 AM
Just a quick note that we will be winding down our Community Technology Preview of the Windows Live Spaces Photo API and the Windows Live Application Based Storage API in the next couple of days and we will be turning off those API endpoints.
The Photos API CTP especially has been extremely useful for us, as we learned a ton about the functionality developers want and previewed our first AtomPub endpoint – this AtomPub endpoint drove some of the thinking around the Live Framework. But the time has come for these CTPs to end. In the future, we will be back with another Photo API, but we don’t have the exact schedule yet.
Community Technology Previews are designed to shape the technology by giving developers early access to a technology to allow them to “kick the tires” and provide us valuable feedback. CTP releases explicitly do not allow for use in production-style environments (see terms). This allows us to get our offering right before we have customers bet their businesses on us. With the development of the Live Framework and the revamped release of Windows Live services, the APIs need an overhaul to provide a consistent developer and user experience for accessing private data and related metadata.
One last thing, I want to explicitly call out the work we did with eye.fi. Allowing their customers to upload photos to Spaces in a preview state really drove a lot of the key learnings around the Photo API – eye.fi have been a great partner.
Original Post: Photos API and App Storage API CTP Ending
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