If you doubted how serious Microsoft was about making its live.com a viable set of services with the microsoftgadgets and Office Live, then maybe Visual Studio Live will convert you. It’s a long way from here, but it’s up for more than discussion.

John Montgomery has the details:

I’m making a transition into the product team to work as a program manager to help define what a “Live” version of Visual Studio might look like. If you think about Office Live and Windows Live, you can see that “Live” is coming together to mean “software that is smarter when it’s online and back-ended by a set of services.” I think most developers get this concept intuitively — that software can (and should) be better when it’s online.

John is looking for feedback about what others would like to see in a “live” version of Visual Studio. Here’s my short wishlist, and I’ll probably add more tomorrow morning after sleeping on it:

- make it fast. Developing in quicksand blows and I can just see a first version of VS Live being speedy only to get slower and slower over time because too many features are added. Keep it lean, mean and clean.
- plugins. Make it so developers can add what they want or make other plugins for other VS Live developers

What would you like to see in VS Live?

Did this post make you go hmm?

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