Comments on: Windows Live Writer Good and Bad

By: Aimless Ramblings from a Blithering Lunatic . . . : The Winds of Change . . .

Aimless Ramblings from a Blithering Lunatic . . . : The Winds of Change . . . — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 22:42:13 +0000

[...] With IE7, Microsoft has been pushing out tons of add-ins, and free little applications, all using the Windows Live branding. One of which being the Windows Live Writer, that I am actually using for the first time to compose this post. So far, I have to admit that I’m impressed with this. If you want to take a look, you can get it here – or read Vlad’s thoughts on it here (after all, we all know that Vlad has a clear-cut opinion on EVERYTHING ) [...]

By: Edgar J

Edgar J — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 03:57:50 +0000

Richwalkup: Maybe I’m not looking at this right – but side by side the screenshots look nearly identical. They ripped the design and layout of the competing product – that doesn’t seem fair.

By: richwalkup

richwalkup — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 00:45:26 +0000

@Adam – Implementing features that are existing in other companies’ software is not theft unless it is in violation of a patent. In fact, by doing things like this Microsoft actually makes these other companies work for their money. If these are features that should exist in any good blogging tool as suggested, then BlogJet must now step up their game and produce something that is new and exceptional again.

I hate when Microsoft stifles technology by forcing their hand in licensing agreements and such, but when they take it to the boards by mass producing and giving away mediocre to good products and make other companies produce innovation to stay on top, I say it’s all for the better.

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 00:11:13 +0000

Microsoft totally ripped off BlogJet. If I were you I’d delete this post. No sense helping promote theft.

By: Geeking Microsoft : Testing Windows Live Writer

Geeking Microsoft : Testing Windows Live Writer — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 20:33:29 +0000

[...] I decided to give Windows Live Writer a try after hearing reading some good things about it. I have been using BlogJet for awhile and am very happy with it. In fact, Dmitry was a little upset that a bunch of Live Writer’s features had seemed to have been pulled from BlogJet. And I can see why he is upset. I think his tool was just beginning to gain traction and take off and now Microsoft has released a free tool that is – for the most part – comparable to BlogJet. I would be upset if I was him as well! This is a dilemma I see more and more. Microsoft can afford to develop these simple tools and give them away. And I don’t agree they are “ripping off” BlogJet – these are features any good Blogging tool should have. [...]

By: KScriber

KScriber — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 20:22:29 +0000

Just what we need. Something to make it even easier for idiots to spew their brandead rants on the net.

Who is this supposed to target? People that can’t figure out the WYSIWYG editors embedded in IE?

By: Celia

Celia — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 12:45:47 +0000

Same. Bet you this disappears when Office launches with Word blogging interface. I would not get too attached to this.

By: Merlon

Merlon — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 12:33:58 +0000

Gave it a shot, install failed and crashed HARD. Beta I suppose, will give it a shot later.