It’s all about the plug-ins. If Microsoft has learned nothing else from Mozilla Firefox and Chrome, it’s the fact that plug-ins make or break an application.

I received an email several days ago and it said that all existing plug-ins and NEW plug-ins are going to have to go through a new process to post plug-ins to the new upcoming Windows Live Writer gallery [or just Windows Live gallery]. Either way, right now, it’s deplorable.

But I seriously doubt this is the way to get this ball started.

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When I was going through the new Wave 4 beta stuff I downloaded the Microsoft Outlook Connector and installed [actually] by mistake.

I didn’t actually realize what it was until I restarted Microsoft Outlook. It’s Microsoft’s attempt to generate a Xobni clone straight from the clanging bowels of Microsoft.

It’s an initial offering to attempt to keep the non-Xobni users of the world quasi-happy with Microsoft Outlook. The problem is that it’s got a cheapness about it and not well thought out.

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Since I downloaded the Windows Live Writer beta, I

have been in almost complete disgust with the lack of attention it received in the 18+ month vacation from development.

While I think Windows Live Writer is the best offline blogging application on the Internet, it seems to be missing it’s market; it’s missing that die hard blogger spirit that sparked the development of the application in the first place.

It’s almost like the people who write Windows Live Writer don’t understand what they’re doing, or don’t care, or don’t understand the drive, inspiration and needs of the bloggers anymore…

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One of the more lacking and obtuse features of Windows Live Writer is the lacking ability to open old posts. In the previous version you were limited to 500 previous posts.

Now that the new Wave 4 beta version is out, you can open 3000+ previous posts, but the catch is that Windows Live Writer has to download all those posts [each time] to reference the one post.

It’s obtuse and a complete waste of time. It makes more sense to poll the blog account, download a listing of previous posts and keep them for reference in the future.

Luckily, and just recently, someone already figured this out and created a plug-in to circumvent that issue in an interesting way.

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I was adding some image to a blog the other day, and as normal, I was using Windows Live Writer to do all my editing for the blog.

I’m starting to see Windows Live Writer age in front of me. The application is fairly young; it’s not mature- it’s really not and you can see this in the various shortcoming of the program, BUT the high side is that it’s still better than most free offerings, so I’m not going to gripe too much. Plug-ins do a lot to pull in the short areas…

My problem was adding a bunch of images to a blog and NOT using Windows LIVE album; I wanted all the images on my blog, hosted with me and presented inline.

But there were some obstacles…

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Microsoft has been less than giving in the world of blogging. And I was less than optimistic earlier this year when the screenshots of Windows Live Writer – wave 4 were ‘leaked’.

http://www.lehsys.com/2010/02/windows-live-writer-2010-just-minor-updates/

And today, I saw this post from Digital Inspiration and it confirmed my fears.

Microsoft hasn’t done anything to Windows Live Writer to make it any better. They’ve made it more cumbersome, and they’ve added the ribbon interface [which I hate] to ‘enhance’ the GUI.

From the post, there’s a screenshots of the new Windows Live Writer – Wave 4.

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When I logged in to my WordPress account today, I was nicely surprised to see that WordPress 3.0 had been released. I like to stay on top of my WordPress installations and I like to see what strikes my interest as I go through the new stuff in the latest release.

There were a few things in the latest version that I liked and a few things I still am going to have to wait for. I think WordPress is a great blogging tool and has made some great strides for everyone that’s a blogger, or wants to blog.

This is my quick skim through the release.

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The beginning of this month was outstanding. I was seeing a lot of traffic, but as I’ve reported before, the Internet is a wave, and sometimes you’ll get a few, and sometimes, not so much, but you moving forward.

I’ve an established level now of average daily views and it’s easy to notice a surge is on…

See what’s been going on…

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