I really appreciate you taking the time to comment here!

I guess it does make sense to upgrade the apps I might have installed already, but isn’t there a danger that, by integrating them more tightly with each other, they’ll end up becoming impossible to install separately?

Live Writer is generating some good reviews at the moment (it was even mentioned on Windows Weekly with Leo Laporte and Paul Thurrot this week); it would be such a shame to lose that kind of positive buzz by turning it into a mega-suite because of the component dependencies…(IMHO, of course!)

(and, try as I might, I really can’t get Chocolate Rain out of my head..!)

WLW now shares an installer with the other applications on the screenshot, and the installer will upgrade any apps you already have installed without asking you. The reason for this (as I understand it) is because we intend for the applications to become more and more integrated over time, and it’s hard to do that if you might have any version of any of the Windows Live apps installed simultaneously.

That said, it would definitely be good if we asked the user for confirmation and canceled the installation altogether if necessary. Thanks for the feedback!

P.S. lol @ chocolate rain