Windows Live Messenger 8.1

Got another email from the windows live team announcing the beta of Windows Live Messenger 8.1

From the content of the email they kind of made it out to have a few extra features and to be this and that much better than version 8.0 and all these other reasons why I should upgrade so I go to the site, upgrade, and find out it isn’t really that much different to the previous version. Still I managed to waste 2 minutes downloading and installing it.

By the way I’m not suggesting that any of the Windows Live products are crap! they have chucked out some pretty cool apps over the past few months.

Microsoft Expression Web Developer (part 2)

Well, I spent a little timeusing this software yesterday afternoon, and to be fair I don’t think I actually used it enough to be able to slate it or give it a raving review, so I am not going to do either.

What I will say is that this program is probably not for the home user or even the commercial user with a very small site or very limited requirements, simply because looking at it this software is feature packed and usually with features comes price tags so once the beta is over with I would not expect it to be cheap to buy.

There are a few things I can say initially I do like about this program, and a few that maybe I would change or get rid of, but as I said initially I don’t think I have explored enough of the features to go in depth – yet.

If you want to take a look at it for yourself though, you can find it here