Starting to use Open Live Writer

My wish is to try and put a blog post every week. I was looking for a tool that can help me do this.  I remembered good old Microsoft Live Writer. First link from Google search shows up a refererence to tool built in 2009 (I am sure there is a newer version too).

It was the second link that caught my eye – OpenLiveWriter. Screenshots looked very similar to Microsoft’s version and soon realized that it is based of Microsof’t version.

Good for Microsoft, that it decided to open it up and let community drive it (rather than have the code just die).  May be Google can learn from it (I would love to get Picasa back).

Time Warner Will Split AOL

As per Associated Press, Time Warner will split AOL. What does it mean for the industry which is already hot with Microsoft's plans of acquiring Yahoo? Well, AOL becomes a low hanging fruit. Now, AOL has several businesses. Some of those business make plenty of sense:

• AOL's Portal, email, AIM, ICQ , Xdrive- can be acquired by Microsoft or Google either.
• WinAmp MP3 Player - Can be acquired by Google
• AOL's Dial up Internet - can be acquired by AT&T

Watch out for more action in this front.

Linux and Microsoft

I sometime ponder about what would happen to all the Linux Servers running in United States Government Servers if Microsoft wins a law suite against various Linux vendors? Can US Government who do not like to be held at ransom by any large country of its size (aka China) like to be held on ransom by a corporate who thrives on US Government policies?