Review: Windows Live Essentials April 10, 2009
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I reviewed this application a year ago and it’s changed a lot since. The interface has been changed to blend more into Windows 7 which you will see in the screen shots below.
Part 1 – Installation
The installer is very user-friendly and doesn’t force you to install all the applications.
– It’s nice that you can select what you want and don’t want to install
– The installation took a little longer then I expected, but I have slow internet
– After about 30 minutes it’s done.
– And you can sign up for a Live ID if you haven’t already
– Looks like it worked
– Windows Live Mail is my second favorite email app next to Outlook
– Photo Gallery isn’t really need in Vista but it’s nice to have in XP
– Windows Live Writer is my favorite blogging application. Highly recommended
– Even though I’m not a fan of toolbars, this one is actually quite nice.
Overall rating: 4 out of 5
Installer: 4.5 out of 5
Mail: 5 out of 5
Photo Gallery: 4 out of 5
Writer: 5 out of 5
Toolbar: 3.5 out of 5
If you want to download Windows Live Essentials, just go here: http://download.live.com/
My browser is hosted on SourceForge.net! August 7, 2008
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I submitted my application earlier today and got accepted tonight! For those of you who don’t know, I am writing a browser written completely in Microsoft Visual Basic. It has over 1100 lines of code and took 4 months to write. I used Visual Studio 2005 Standard and Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0. It will take a few days before everything is working but when everything is working, the website will be http://browsernet.sourceforge.net (not up yet) and the project page will be http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/browsernet
Windows “Mojave” July 31, 2008
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LOL. This is so funny. Microsoft’s new campaign to change people’s thoughts on Windows Vista seems to be helping some. What they did was rename Windows Vista to Windows “Mojave” and make people think they were using a whole new operating system but they were really using Windows Vista. I think this is a great idea since most of the people that don’t like Windows Vista have never used it, have used it but on a slow computer, or have used it on a computer with a lot of junk software on it. You can view the videos of what they did here or watch this video:
Windows “Fiji” has RTM’d July 19, 2008
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Finally! Windows “Fiji” has RTM’d as Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008! More Info here . But remember that Fiji may not be released until September but that has not been confirmed by Microsoft.
Forget about saving XP, lets save Windows for Workgroups! July 14, 2008
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Microsoft has announced that OEM’s cannot license Windows for Workgroups in the enbedded channel after November 1. You can find out more about this from here .
Get ready for another InfoWorld petition <sigh>.
