Map over Mindszent

Lately I have become more and more tired of Mozilla, with it’s two main applications, Firefox and Thunderbird. I have always considered Firefox as bloatware and sadly seen that Thunderbird as a project has never gotten the attention that it’s deserves. Who can tell me when Thunderbird v3.0 is gonna be released?

Cloud Computing is today a term I more or less hear daily.  Rich Web2.0 applications on the web are great for those who are often out traveling without a computer. Microsoft has managed to ride the Web2.0 wave in a balanced, impressive way with it’s Live applications. I have been using Internet Explorer 8 beta 2 since the day it came out, and today I installed Microsoft Live Suite with updated versions of Windows Live Mail, Windows Live Photo Gallery, Windows Live Writer and of course Live Messenger.

screenshot of Windows Live Suite

Windows Live Mail impresses me a lot. Where Mozilla tries to integrate a horrible looking Lightning in to Thunderbird, Microsoft has released a mail client with an inbuilt calendar and an addressbook well integrated with their IM client, Live Messenger.

Windows Live Photo Gallery is already my preferred gallery application. It replaced Google Picasa and Flickr Uploadr. The application supports plugins for image services on the net and the CMS solution Drupal.

This article was of course written and published from Microsoft’s AtomPub-enabled Live Writer (who says Microsoft never follows standards?). The latest version lets you add maps, DiggThis and Geo Microformats direct from the client. Also this application supports plugins, but none are yet available.