Comments on: New Windows Live Writer - Microsoft Makes Mistakes

By: Joe Cheng [MSFT]

Joe Cheng [MSFT] — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 05:46:54 +0000

> Why the hell do I need administrative privileges to install a blog authoring tool?

We register some COM components to allow Blog This from the browser and from feed readers, and they don’t seem to work right under Vista unless they are installed under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, not HKEY_CURRENT_USER.

> The installer tries to change my browser homepage: that’s a no-no.

I have no comment on that, now excuse me while I go back to banging my head against my desk.

By: J.T Dabbagian

J.T Dabbagian — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 02:56:25 +0000

Dude, it’s Microsoft. It’s their OS, so they think they can do whatever they want.

Actually, Live Writer isn’t a bad piece of work.

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 02:08:30 +0000

Hey Aaron,

i totally agree. I don’t understand why companies assume they can take other parts of our machines over - it sucks.

-Jason