Microsoft's Online Services Division (OSD) is the home of the Bing search platform, MSN and Microsoft advertising. But it's also where a couple of hundred developers are working full-time on writing apps for Windows 8 tablets, Windows Phones and the Xbox gaming console.
(Credit: Microsoft) This team -- known as AppEx (Application Experiences) -- is the one that built the news, travel, finance, weather, sports and maps applications that have shipped as part of the Windows 8 test builds. They're using primarily (but not exclusively) HTML5 and JavaScipt to build showcase apps that may (but don't have to) include Bing and MSN data and elements. The AppEx deliverables are meant to visibly demonstrate to customers and other developers what the Metro/modern/Windows 8 (pick your branding poison) experience is all about.
The head of the AppEx team is Online Services Corporate Vice President Brian MacDonald. MacDonald heads up Online Services program management and head of the Bing core engineering team. MacDonald also has application experience. Ironically, in a previous life at Microsoft, MacDonald ran the NetDocs team. That team was building an Interne... [Read more]
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