Windows Live Essentials 2011 – Download free Microsoft programs
Just posting this with the blog client, which picked up my account settings (including my username * password)without me asking it to… sounds pretty standard for Microsoft practice. Despite that, its not bad, it has some nice functionality..
Like the maps function. However, if I was lost (which is very often in HCMC)…
I think I might just trust Google maps to help me get home instead. To be honest from what it can do, it looks like Movable Type’s interface about 5 years ago with the same functionality. It apparently has a plugins section, but I can’t see any of my wordpress plugins there. After investigation it has its own plugins you have to install. So, Download, install (save and close current post if you are doing one), open program, tell it not to reconigure all your search engines to Bing, reload post…
Now, I may be wrong (except I’m not) but aren’t there about eleventy-twelve free websites that can do this for you, as well as umpteen WP plugins that can make you cover flow galleries and interactive montages using java? In that case, is this seen as an improvement.. It could be, if you call MS Paint an improvement over Photoshop…
I am guessing that if it may improve later with the WP / MS agreement, but also that people with Blogger accounts will be made to suffer for it too. Set up properly, the WP web posting interface can do so much more, and doesn’t require a setup that tries to reconfigure EVERYTHING on your computer which doesn’t point towards the MS mecca back to face the holy land. So I am officially calling it a crock.
(of shit, if you were wondering. If it was any good a little animated gif of a poo should appear. But it doesn’t)
4/10
and in this case, yes, I am bias towards WP. But it’s never done me wrong.To be honest I don’t think there will be a blogging client which makes any innovations that drastic to make me change when the WP Plugin market is so healthy.
So Bye Bye, Windows Live Writer. Don’t think I’ll be seeing you again.
