Way back in July my friend and former Microsoft employee Alex Barnett posted a question on his widely read blog about the support for our APIs in Live. Since we were under NDA then I wasn't able to comment. I'm unsure of it's omission from the marketing messaging - that one is something for our marketing folks to comment on.
From Alex's Blog:
It's one thing to have on-premises software that can be extended and integrated with other software and services through SOAP APIs behind your firewall (Dynamics has a healthy story in this department today), but it is quite another (increasingly necessary) thing to provide APIs as part of a hosted SaaS service. I would have thought the provisioning of SaaS APIs would have been a central component of Microsoft's messaging today so am a little surprised by its omission.
Good News Alex! Live does have the full SOAP API found in the On-Premise product. We've done a lot of innovative work to have our SOAP web service API use Windows Live ID authentication. This isn't some dodgy 'admin token' service which some other services provide: it's the real deal - with authentication on a unique per user basis. We'll be talking more about the Live programming model over the next few months as we tell the Titan story in more detail.
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