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So Microsoft released a beta of a new blog authoring application called Windows Live Writer last friday. I’ve got to think this will be an included tool in Vista, and even though we tend to harp on Microsoft a lot around here, I think this is a good sign that Redmond is starting to wise up to the kinds of functionality their modern users can really benefit from.
Launching along with the application itself, we’ve been presented with a developer blog called “Writer Zone“, much along the lines of the IE 7 developer site. Launching blogs along with new products is a very mature move on Microsoft’s part, and it feels to me like these will really improve the quality of the products they release if the MS bigwigs actually listen to what the user base has to say.
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Not only are we listening to our users, we’re stalking them back to their own blogs.
As much as we would love it, there’s no chance we could ship with Vista, at least not this go-round. Believe it or not the quality bar is incredibly high if you want to try to get software “in the box”, we would never even ask until we have fully internationalized versions for all countries and full accessibility support for the physically challenged.
By the way, this is a gorgeous blog skin, did you do it yourself?
lol, if developers taking an interst in what their users have to say is called “stalking” I’m all for it!
And yes: the skin for Crashpod is 100% home grown, glad you like it!