Over the passed few months I have been listening and reading Paul Thurrots (Super site for WIndows) commentary on Microsoft develop of all things Windows Live, that Web Apps, Skydrive, Edu@LIVE, and the much anticipated WAVE 4 of Windows Live Essentials.
That ‘research’ has lead to further interest in @RayFleming contributions to the Microsoft Education blog and Ben Nunney (@bennuk) – a man that ‘deploys things for Micorsoft.’ Ben was kind enough to take ourTwitter conversation further and answered my initial enquires.
To answer your question about roadmap and the future of the apps – we’re committed to developing them further, and have both a strong roadmap and excellent engineering team working on the next version as we speak! There will be updates, upgrades and new versions down the line that are set to add even more fantastic and exciting features, many of which I feel confident will benefit the education market greatly.
To answer your question about roadmap and the future of the apps – we’re committed to developing them further, and have both a strong roadmap and excellent engineering team working on the next version as we speak! There will be updates, upgrades and new versions down the line that are set to add even more fantastic and exciting features, many of which I feel confident will benefit the education market greatly.
Ben went on to offer his support and availability to answer any further questions had. That afternoon, I meet with our Network manager and E-Resources manager and we set out and emailed our current queries, most of which focused on Edu@Live.
Collaborative writing? The first request from students.
There will be updates, upgrades and new versions down the line that are set to add even more fantastic and exciting features, many of which I feel confident will benefit the education market greatly.
Will this coincide with WAVE 4 of hotmail etc, mail sweeps
Mike Jenkins / Alan Tarry will definitely catch up on my behalf, sadly I am a teacher first a technician second in this instance.
Questions we have discussed internally;
What happens is a student accidently deletes a folder / file in s Skydrive – say important coursework. On the network we would simply restore it?
Email restoration: Last emails, deleted emails, are these services forgone, when accepting the Edu@LIVE accounts.
With use of both Skydrive and Web apps, has there been discussion on the internet pipe requirements / bandwidth for schools, rg we are 1100 students. With approximately 500 concurrently users across the school.
Security and child protection issues. Can we track emails sent by user accounts. Would this be achieved by taking over their user account.
We still can to get our Office – moodle integration working. (I have the options to save to Moodle, but that about it?)
County are moving on a DOMAIN for the county? We are still not sure of the benefits of joining ‘service?’ Do you have an opinion?
How is that for starters. Enthused by the conversation, but I am not expecting an immediate response.