Editing Windows Movie Maker (section)

==Reception and criticism==
Movie Maker 1.0, introduced with [[Windows Me]], was widely criticized for being "bare bones"<ref>[http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,133191-page,3-c,electronics/article.html The 20 Worst Windows Features of All Time], PC World</ref> and suffering "a woeful lack of features";<ref name="techradar">[http://www.techradar.com/products/computing/software/graphics-media/video-editing/microsoft-windows-movie-maker-hd-283507/review Microsoft Windows Movie Maker HD review], TechRadar</ref> and saving movies only in Microsoft's ASF file format.<ref>{{cite web|date=July 24, 2000|title=Windows Millennium Edition: All About Me|url=http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,17791-page,4-c,me/article.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130630031533/http://www.pcworld.com/article/17791/article.html|archive-date=June 30, 2013|website=PC World}}</ref> Critical reception of versions 2.0 and 2.6 has been slightly more positive.<ref name="techradar" />

Many longstanding users were disappointed by the removal of so many features in the effective re-writing of the software in Live Movie Maker 2009. Some of those features (such as visualisation of the audio levels) have subsequently been re-added.

In June 2008, a memo purportedly by [[Bill Gates]] from January 2003 was circulated on the Internet in which he heavily criticized the downloading process for Movie Maker at the time.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20170208095128/http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/2008/06/24/full-text-an-epic-bill-gates-e-mail-rant/ An epic Bill Gates e-mail rant], Seattle P-I</ref> The memo was originally made available online as part of the plaintiffs' evidence in ''Comes v. Microsoft Corp.'', an antitrust class-action suit, and was submitted as evidence in that case on January 16, 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/2008/06/24/full-text-an-epic-bill-gates-e-mail-rant/|title=Full text: An epic Bill Gates e-mail rant|date=June 24, 2008|access-date=June 15, 2016}}</ref>