I think like any savvy computer user, I’m hesitant to install anything on my computer that comes from Micro$oft. I began my career as we a web designer cursing and swearing at the cheap employers who insisted we use Frontpage because it was “already installed.”
That attitude is/was such a violation of logic and free enterprise and healthy competition and everything else the internet promised or stood for, it was enough to drive designers and developers mad. Not to mention the browser wars and the vicious disinformation campaigns against non-Micro$oft products.
When I worked in advertising, one of our main clients used a bubble-gum and prayer NT system for their multi-million dollar e-commerce rig. They measured up time (on their test environment) in hours. Our duplicate test environment measured up time in months – the only difference being that ours was a Unix server.
But enough about this wretched history of Micro$oft. I’m talking about their wretched future. This new Blogging app, Writer, hasn’t crashed yet. But upon clicking that fateful download button, my VIAO lurched into a wild seizure of downloads and installs, updates and god knows what else. When the dust settled, I was being asked to set up a Windows Live profile – something I didn’t want to do, didn’t set out to do.
But credit where do, Writer is still so far, a pretty nifty little app. It’s not much different than any other bloggers apps, except that you get the added comfort of knowing it’s a quality Micro$oft product riding wild through your trusty computer’s electrons.
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Write in Writer, send it up to my website, my LiveJournal and to a few other selected blog outlets as well. Is this a good thing? Probably not, but we all love convenience.