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Windows Live

You may have noticed that my Windows Live Space (a.k.a. Geoff Coupe’s Blog) has changed its appearance today. Microsoft has just rolled out major changes to its Windows Live Services. I can’t say that I’m particularly happy about them. Management of comments on the blog has just got really difficult, and it was badly designed before.
 
It looks as though Microsoft is trying to build a Facebook clone. I don’t want a Facebook clone, I just want a nice simple blog. Sigh.

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2 responses to “Windows Live”

  1. Michael Avatar
    Michael

    You know, my offer to help move these all to a more comprehensive blogging package (WordPress, Movable Type, etc) still stands. Just sayin’. And for what it’s worth, I use Windows Live Writer to publish to my WordPress blog when I get the urge to write.

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  2. Geoff Avatar
    Geoff

    As Vicki Pollard would say: Yeah, but no, but yeah, but no… I’m not sure that a "comprehensive" blogging package is what I’m looking for. Windows Live Spaces has been OK for me up to now. It’s just that Microsoft has moved all the furniture around (or, as I commented on their team blog, sent it off to another country), and what was relatively straightforward is now buried in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike. Frankly, the user interface design team must have been asleep at the wheel on this one.

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