Not installing Windows Live Messenger

Today I am reinstalling software packages on my work machine. One thing I came up in mind is not to install Windows Live Messenger. The reason is simply that the Live Messenger became too distracting and frankly, an IM chat is never efficient anyways. And I realized that not having messenger installed on system actually gave me a good refreshing feeling.

Another interesting alternative is that, although I avoided messenger, I still went to www.live.com and downloaded Live Writer and Live Photo Gallery. Live Writer quickly became my primary blog authoring tool because of its excellent integration with the blog hosts I use. The Live Gallery, on the other hand, out performs Windows Photo Gallery because its integration with flickr. I guess Live team can call these two features a victory…well, only over Windows Vista though.