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June 2, 2007

New Live Betas

Filed under: Microsoft — tim CARMICHAEL @ 1:03 pm

I’m just using the new Live Writer (516) to write this entry.  Its far superior to the last version and I think I am going to use it for a while until I find a flaw.  There’s new updates for Messenger (8.5) and Mail.  I’m not entirely struck on the mail client, I think Microsoft’s strategy doesn’t add up here.  I don’t think we should have separate mail clients,  just one based on the main Outlook codebase with plug-ins for various functions like Exchange, nntp and RSS.  Full Outlook nntp handling is just atrocious and a merging of Outlook, Outlook Express and Live Mail would be a huge benefit if it could bring together their individual strengths and leave behind the weaknesses. 

I also think its a bit presumptuous that the installer tries to get you to change your web home page and search engine to Live as its first step, I think that could confuse a lot of people.

Anyway I like Live Writer, so far …. 

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