I really hope the great blogging tool Windows Live Writer will get better over time. Here’s my wish list, in case anybody from Microsoft is listening:
It’s not much, but it will really help a lot of people.
You nkow all about the war. Everybody does.
So, my point is simple: Google created some random queries with bogus results and feed them to Microsoft via it’s toolbar. Google » bogus results. Google » handpicked results. Google just admited it fixes search results. Simple.
Of course, not all the time. Of course, never, they say. But…
I’ve reported this problem to Microsoft, but it will probably take another 2 to 6 months before i get an answer.
The answer is simple: wlw checks for an exif. If he finds one, the image is a JPEG, so he leaves it alone. If he doesn’t, he assumes it’s a PNG, so he transforms it into one.
The image on the left is transformed. The one on the right is not.
In the begining there was Internet Explorer. The fact that all spyware was directed to it made Firefox gain 10-20% marketshare. Inserting the search box on the top right of the browser made Google the king of search.
It’s murder what Steve Jobs is doing to flash. The problem, after Jobs’ hypocrisy and such is that he is right. Flash sucks a lot. That is why Microsoft, who holds about 95% of the computer market today isn’t saying anything. Because they know, too, that flash sucks for PCs even more than it sucks for Apple. Flash’s beeen crashing Firefox and IE for a long long time, but it’s the way people make money. Microsoft could turn it off, of course, but then there will be no more banners, no more sites and no more use for a computer. What’s the point of having a computer with internet if you can’t view a site (that is ad-supported) or a video or a game? None.