DISQUS

Chris Charabaruk · 1 year ago

Finally, a new version! Hopefully this means that the RTW versions of wave 3 will be released before February rolls around.

Little Miss · 1 year ago

I've been using Windows Live Writer (WLW) on my various Wordpress blogs for at least a year now. I wouldn't use anything else. It's supersy to change between blogs, or if you have one post you want to post to both places, easy peasy. Just select from a drop down menu. If you change the theme of your blog, you can download the look and feel into WLW as well so you can see what your post looks like before you publish. It's easy to manipulate the placement of photos in your blog (left, right, center) and also super easy to insert video, like from YouTube. You can also easily schedule your blogs for publication at a later date. If you find a typo in your post and want to update, just fix it in WLW and republish - it doesn't duplicate the post.

The whole Windows Live team is doing some really kick @$$ things these days.

Ali Raza Shaikh · 1 year ago

It works well with blogger too. So, Windows Live Writer is improving alot. Great!

Pasi · 1 year ago

The Live Writer works great with Live Mesh too. Just sychronize the 'My Weblog Posts' folder and you can write your posts on any number of computers you are using.

Amit Agarwal · 1 year ago

Scoble - Get the Writer plugin for Firefox from Mozilla add-ons website and you'll enjoy the software even more. The latest release also includes tag suggestions so you don't have to guess old tag names anymore.

Basar · 1 year ago

Live Writer has improved a lot recently and it is nice to see a Live product that actually benefits the tech community so much. I don't think it will have a big impact on the general public but it certainly makes our lives easier. Good job Microsoft.

Robin Capper · 1 year ago

The one thing I didn't like was it had a preset folder for drafts/docs. I'll have to take a look & see if this one allows you to spec a location. I'm using another off-line editor saving to a Live Mesh folder which isn't in "my doc"currently.

Ali Tehrani · 1 year ago

Perhaps the best thing about WLW could be varioud types of plug-ins which may help different needs. It's not a long time I'm using it, but am more than happy:
http://digitala.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!D67698...

Brett Nordquist · 1 year ago

I've been using Windows Live Writer for about a year and really enjoy it. It's my favorite MS product. I wrote about it back in June.

http://blog.nordquist.org/?p=2482

Andy Gongea · 1 year ago

I don't know this version but the last one was pretty nice.

Alexander Benker · 1 year ago

using Windows Live Writer for my Blogger blog - works fine and I'm really happy with it

Joel Marcey · 1 year ago

Microsoft Windows Live Writer is unquestionably the best blog writing program around. Bar none. It is for that program alone (well, maybe Visual Studio and Office too) that having a Windows machine around is worthwhile.

If only there was a remotely close program for the Mac that can compete with Windows Live Writer. I sure haven't found one yet.

Joel Marcey · 1 year ago

Windows Live Writer is unquestionably and undoubtedly the best blog writing program on any platform. Period. Bar none. It is the one reason I keep a Windows machine around (well, I guess Visual Studio and Office are good too).

I have yet to find any program on the Mac that remotely comes close to Live Writer in terms of functionality and just general program goodness. If someone knows of one, I would love to know.

VitaminCM · 1 year ago

I've been using Live Writer for over a year with my Wordpress blog. I love it. It works great. You can even get a portable version for a USB drive if you're worried about it being consistent on multiple computers.

paul · 1 year ago

I use Windows Live Writer all the time now and it's amazing!

Don · 1 year ago

Ironically your wife turns off comments and shows no trackbacks on this post. So much for conversation :-) with her.

I get why she waits to see what you truly stick with. You do go on and on about liking this or that -- like remember how facebook just shut you down? You already forgave them?

Unlike Miram, I still don't really get facebook as more than a finder of people. I guess you can find someone (I do get that part) but I don't get the value of a wall-to-wall conversation. Just too disjointed for me. I'd rather call them up if I got something to say -- or send an email.

I don't get your concept of live web either. Hearing things in real time with no chance for reflection and no chance for context ... and the noise ratio to value must be amazing. I really wonder how harmful it will be to attention spans and productivity.

I like technology ... but not in all instances. Call me a stick in the mud.

Irfan Ahmed · 1 year ago

I think Live writer is great but I tend to use the Blogger writer within the browser so I can get used to all the tools within the Blogger writer. So if I need to blog from somewhere else its easier!

Otherwise this is the first time I have read this blog and I have to say its a good read! Hope to keep reading and commenting.


Irfan Ahmed
Political Blogger and Commentator

Ben Pettit · 1 year ago

Anyone (Robert and company) know of a good alternative program for mac? I have used Qumana and I wasn't very impressed with it. Are there any other alternatives out there?

Colin Clark · 1 year ago

Thanks for the review! I've been using Live Writer for a little over a month to post similar content to multiple 'remote' blogs. It makes it soooo much easier. If you work with multiple blogs like I do (I help manage blogs for corporate customers) live writer is pretty much essential if I want to finish my work by the end of the day. I would like to know if there is a comparable program for my mac. I don't know what my problem is, but even if an app is the best thing since sliced bread, if it's made by Microsoft I don't want to use it. They've ruined their reputation in my book.

J S · 1 year ago

Since you're using Wordpress & Firefox.. I've found great luck with ScribeFire editing my blogs - and actually quite surprised at the ease of completing the typical blogger tasks.

http://www.scribefire.com/
http://www.greenhorninvestor.com/
http://privateproductivity.com/blog/

J

Rick Calvert · 1 year ago

I luv windows live writer!

Lionel Menchaca · 1 year ago

Count me in with the list of fans. I've been using Live Writer since Sean O'Driscoll mentioned it to me back in his Microsoft days. After we get some backend tweaks done, I hope that we can use Live Writer as the main publication tool for all of Dell's blogs.

The ease of use is the main reason. Folks can format text and images easily. It's much simpler than the Community Server 2008 interface. That means more Dell folks will blog without my assistance. Woo hoo!

D&G · 1 year ago

I cannot agree with you more Robert.
I've been using Windows Live Writer for over 1.5 years, and always tell people how great this piece of free software from Microsoft is.
How much is an evangelist consumer worth for a company...?

D&G

adrian boioglu · 1 year ago

i was a die hard user of Windows Live Writer and that little software along with Outlook 2007 kept me from switching to Mac for a couple of months. now i've been working with a MacBook pro for over a month and I can say I found a perfect replacement for Outlook 2007: Mail for emails and NtNewsWire for Feeds.

unfortunately, it was pretty hard to find a good replacement for WLW. I tried Mars Edit for a while but it's not even close. No i'm using Ecto and I'm pretty happy with it. It;s the best offline blog editor for Mac out there. With Custom HTML Tags you can extend it's capabilities. And the fact that is downloading all my posts for safe keeping makes it even better than Windows Live Writer.

Of course, if there will be a Mac version of WLW, I would gladly use it. I still cannot believe it was done by Microsoft and it's free. :)

Stiv Bator · 1 year ago

For the mac:

Marsedit is great.

bonus:written by 1 dude, not MS.

Patrick Moorhead · 1 year ago

I have been using LW for about 6 months and love it. Off-line capability and instant integration with MOSS is great. My only wish is that it would handle pics better. Derezzes too much. There are options, but I want to upload the full deal.

Allen Harkleroad · 12 months ago

The latest version of LiveWriter is slick, I am so liking it. The formatting tools could use a bit of tweaking, however LW 2009 is definitely a great tool and keeps getting better. Has anyone else tried the Twitter plugin? Good stuff!

Sam Pinson [MSFT] · 11 months ago

Allen Harkleroad,

I'm on the Windows Live Writer team and am interested in your feedback. Can you elaborate on the tweaking that you would like to see in the formatting tools? Thanks!