Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Plugins.Live.com is now… (i.e. the new Movie Maker, Photo Gallery and Windows Live Writer Plugin gallery)

meraTechPort - Windows Live Plug-ins site launched !

“The plug-ins are one of the most useful additions to various Windows Live products. These enhances the usefulness immensely. Now a new , neat , clean  site has been created featuring these plug-ins.

http://plugins.live.com/” [GD:Post leached in full]

Windows Live Plug-ins (plugins.live.com)

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I have to thank Microsoft, and the team behind this, for not forcing all plugin authors to resubmit our plugins… THANK YOU! :)

Also thank you for keeping the plugin download statics. For example, on my Text Template WLW Plugin , found here Text Template, you can see the 9K downloads from when it was on the gallery.live.com.

I do like the clean UI and presentation. It does feel simpler, cleaner and easier than the old gallery implementation. I still like the Visual Studio Gallery and VS2010 Extension Manager better, but this is a good step forward.

Thoughts (in random order):

  • Search?
  • Plugin Author Submission editing (i.e. I’d like to edit the description for my plugin)
  • Online submission form (instead of the email)
  • RSS Feed
  • More Team Transparency (I’d really like to hear more from the Windows Live/WLW team. What they are working on, plans, etc, etc… something maybe like the CodePlex team?)

In any case, this is MUCH better than I originally feared. Thank you again MSFT/team for listening :)

 

Related Past Post XRef:
Goodbye Windows Live Writer - To its Gallery as the first step…but next?

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