Saying goodbye to Microsoft isn’t easy and it remains to be seen how permanent that goodbye is. But today – trying to contend with the short-comings of Windows Vista and the impositions on those who might like to use Windows Live Writer, it’s getting harder and harder to enjoy what Microsoft created.
Windows 7 is an operating system that I was testing. If you were one of those who was testing Windows 7 for Microsoft but failed to purchase by the deadline, you may have experienced how much control Microsoft has, and is willing to exercise, over its operating system and consequently over personal computers that are running that operating system. You may have thought that an operating system wouldn’t dare shut your computer’s power off without your permission. Microsoft can, and would, and did. That is a maximum affront to the computer owner.
Windows Vista seemed like a mistake from the start. It didn’t seem to get much right – even the time of day. I don’t know how far back in computer history you would need to go to find a computer that couldn’t tell time.
And speed is another “trademark” of computer operating systems – but not Vista. You could download a program and after the download completed, visit your download folder only to find the just completed download is not in your download folder. But just wait – Vista has a lot of things to do – slowly. Eventually your newly downloaded program will show up in your download folder.
After service pack two, Vista is finally getting to do some things faster and it now knows how to tell time.
Windows Live Writer is a great blogging editor. That fact is not lost on Microsoft. Although it is “free” it does come with “requirements” on the part of the one who would download the “free” software. And those requirements do seem to be dynamic. Perhaps they change with marketing initiatives.
One of the first things you notice after you get to the WLW download page is WLW is contained in a list. And the next thing you notice is that someone has already checked all items in the list. So, if you only want WLW, you will likely un-check the numerous other items in the list
At the next step Microsoft might either want the WLW requester to answer some questions about personal preferences on topics chosen by Microsoft or they might just want to know if you are registered with Microsoft. After all that your “free” copy of WLW should be downloading.
November 2, 2010 at 12:57 pm |
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