I like WLW. It’s among the few Microsoft products I really enjoy using (along with windows xp and movie maker).
Recently, they’ve updated it. And not in a good way. I remember the times Microsoft office started. It was basic and easy to use. Now it resembles adobe acrobat reader, full of features and a XXX megabytes install kit. WLW is turning into that. Not improved, but bloated.
For the Writer team, here is a list of what I want in the next update of wlw:
- to be able to write tags without extra clicks. I don;t want to press F2 every time I want to use tags for my 5 blogs
- not to have that ugly theme. the versions before had the possibility to choose colors. now, I choose and it does nothing.
- more items in the “drafts” and “recently posted” section.
And some pie. And a solo installer.
Did you try the new Movie Maker beta? If you like the one that comes with Vista, most likely you’ll love the new version…
i can’t install it, don’t know why…
downloaded the 140Mb wlsetup-all.exe and it shows me the web apps to install.
Can you see the Windows Live Photo Gallery and Windows Live Movie Maker beta in the list of available apps? (they can only be installed together)
only photo gallery beta
Can you, please, try the official download page from here, wait for wlsetup-web.exe to launch and let me know if you can see the movie maker here?
nope, still no. maybe because i have xp?
Yep – it’s in the release notes. Vista only. Sorry for that…
🙂