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Introducing Windows Live Writer
windowslivewriter.spaces.live.… — Microsoft launches Windows Live Writer, a new publishing tool for authoring rich blog posts on Windows Live Spaces, Wordpress, Typepad and other blogging services.
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- xose, on 10/12/2007, -10/+23Just tried it out and looks pretty good to be a MS Beta. It's a bit too centered around MS own services, but it's what you would expect from Microsoft anyway.
Also, if you don't like the MSOffice look or prefer a more stable and full-featured blog publisher, check out these ones:
BlogDesk (Windows): http://www.blogdesk.org
Gnome Blog (Linux): http://www.gnome.org/~seth/gnome-blog/
BloGTK (Linux): http://blogtk.sourceforge.net- MoeB, on 10/12/2007, -3/+24It's not centered around MS services. It works flawlessly with blogger and wordpress....
- soul12, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4not quite flawless with blogger unless you are just using text. but if you have images, you have to setup an FTP account for it.
- tarkonicus, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2I wholeheartedly refuse to use anything deemed "rich" anymore. It's about as useful an adjective as "shiny".
- tapo, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Another good Linux one, Drivel. My personal favorite.
http://www.dropline.net/drivel/ - adamjh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7The reason it doesn't work with Blogger is that the Blogger API doesn't support image uploading. Google has created a workaround for their own products (i.e. Picasa), but haven't opened it up for the world to use (yet). An example of Google's minimal investment in Blogger since taking it over. :-(
- RichSPK, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11J.J. Allaire? Did he have anything to do with ColdFusion?
- r2d7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Not sure if it's the same one but presumably it is. JJ and his brother created ColdFusion which was then sold to Macromedia, then he created OnFolio which was then sold to Microsoft.
Smart man. - kirupa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Yes, it is the same JJ of Allaire, and later, Onfolio fame. You can catch his blog at http://flyingupsidedown.wordpress.com/
- gburch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1yes he did - he was the main engineer on it, Jeremy Allaire, his brother, was the business mind.
- r2d7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Not sure if it's the same one but presumably it is. JJ and his brother created ColdFusion which was then sold to Macromedia, then he created OnFolio which was then sold to Microsoft.
- MySchizoBuddy, on 10/12/2007, -14/+5This is direct competition to Ecto (ecto.kung-foo.tv)
- burnt1ce85, on 10/12/2007, -16/+3I havent used it yet but i can imagine it not to be bloatware and be well integrated.
- koonkii, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13looks nice
has the whole office family look/feel to it - dn2004, on 10/12/2007, -6/+14In 1995 JJ Allaire co-founded Allaire Corporation with his brother Jeremy Allaire, creating the web development tool Cold Fusion. Allaire was sold to Macromedia in March 2001 for $360 million. After the sale of his company, JJ became frustrated at the difficulty of keeping track of research he was doing using Google. To address this problem, he co-founded OnFolio in 2004 with Adam Berrey, former Allaire co-founder and VP of Marketing at Macromedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JJ_Allaire- CBSOrchestra, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3Correct, as far as I can see. No diatribe evident. No fangirl-isms evident. In fact, nothing negative or designed to inflame This Side or That Side. So can someone explain the minus one digg? I don't get it.
- Atomic1fire, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1spam perhaps
- BenBenMan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13I've just installed it, and it's pretty nice!
Screenie: http://img82.imageshack.us/my.php?image=windowslivewritergy5.png
One of the nice things about it is that it will download the formatting from your blog, so when you're writing your post it has all the same fonts, spacing, etc as what will actually appear when you post. - codplay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Just downloaded, installed, and connected to my custom WordPress installation with ease. It even does a (basic) job of getting my template in. And it posts well. Quickly.
I like it. And the fact that it's a clean GUI. That's nice. Up until now I've been using Zoundry, which is good - although it's GUI could be better.- Wolf451man, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Having trouble getting it to connect to my custom wordpress (2.0.4) install.
Invalid Server Response.
- Wolf451man, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Having trouble getting it to connect to my custom wordpress (2.0.4) install.
- y0himba, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18This is NOT centered around MS services. It took 2 clicks to set it up with my Blogger account. It works PERFECTLY with Blogger. Fast and solid already for a beta. I was using a program called "w.Bloggar", but the web page for this program has disappeared and I really don't think it is being developed anymore. Live Writer is easier to use and feature filled in typical MS fashion.
My only complaint, or question is will the WMP Blogging plugin powertoy work with this? The plugins link in the program itself, "more about plugins..." is not working at this time.
Good job on this!- DanAtkinson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3 Yeah! I agree! Great stuff!
- leachim_6, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1OMG its STANDARDS COMPLIENT and works with other things than microsofts PROPRIETARY SOFTWARE *GASP!!*
- Rocky21743, on 10/12/2007, -28/+1To quote Jay Sherman...
IT STINKS!- sapo916, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16Anyone wana bet some money that this guy didnt even try the program?
- DanAtkinson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Bah, you clearly have a one track mind of hating anything Microsoft does, even if it's excellent.
Therefore, your biased opinions are worth f**k all.
- glafira, on 10/12/2007, -6/+7The first thing released by Microsoft thats actually compatible with something other then itself.
- tomi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Not exactly. Windows Live Messenger currently has a beta for Yahoo! interoperability.
- Atomic1fire, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2agreed
- soul12, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2great program, i hope it will be free when it's fully released. free as in not WGA-friendly free. i tried it on my blogger but the image posting asks for FTP hosting which I don't want to use since Blogger has their own.
nevertheless, i like it for text posting - TrInIdUdE, on 10/12/2007, -17/+2Mircosoft again.........
- darknight247, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Very strange to say this, but this seems to be a solid non-MS centered beta. It's great that it supports all different blog types/services. I will be highly recommending this.
- sapo916, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3I'll be recommending this to all the Mac users as usual.
- capty99, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3i like the digg link on the page. im not sure what that humurous tidbit is above it though.
how would i integrate this with textpattern? simply or not?- y0himba, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Have you never heard the saying better than sliced bread? It just means that is it extremely cool. best thing since peanut butter and so forth. :)
- AaronMT, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Cool program. Not into the whole blogging thing though.
- rcran, on 10/12/2007, -10/+3cough-iWeb-cough-Barf
- Phantom76, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This just seems to be the completed version of the blogging support built into Office 2007.
- cameronahill, on 10/12/2007, -14/+0Cheap copy of iWeb! It looks ugly and probably performs poorly
- Crypty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5You obviously have not used either app.
- standsolid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Oh Boy! I hope they used the HTML export engine from Word!
- bsaitz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4oh, this is sweet! i added a blogger.com and Dasblog blog in like 2 minutes - painlessly! and the editor is pretty cool. it also imports your CSS and shows you the editor in the native presentation - nice!
- shackbar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Does Writer mangle the HTML? That's a reason I never bothered with Front Page.
- jcheng, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4[MSFT employee] Not too badly. In fact if you paste in HTML from elsewhere (including Word, or the web) into our WYSIWYG view, we try to clean it up. Try it and see.
- mikebritton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I have to admit this is nice. I may use it instead of MovableType 2.64's ui, which for anything but administration is fairly bare-bones in Firefox.
Incredibly, the HTML is fairly un-mangled. - javabeta, on 10/12/2007, -7/+0I met a error when I was publishing my blog.It showed that my net connection was uncorrect.What a joke!
- boxabirds, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Works awesomely with Wordpress on my setup (www.julianonsoftware.com). Definitely sold!
- HarrisonHoffman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4If anyone is interested, I did an audio interview with J.J. on LiveSide talking about Writer. http://www.liveside.net/comments.php?catid=5&shownews=375
- hawk_eye, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Microsoft is getting it !
The Live Writer blog had a link to del.icio.us and also a Digg it ! link
and, this thing is interoperable with Wordpress etc (got my custom wordpress 2.0.4 set up configured without any hitch and real quick too)
wow ! - urchinni, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The tool is awesome. The true sense of WYSIWYG that shows posts just when you are editing in your true blog styles. No more, publish, preview, oh doesn't look good, edit, preview....crap.
Obviously some people don't like it! It is just because it is from Microsoft. But people who can see through the hatred, it is clean and simple tool for blogging. - bobsil1, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1i lkie rocketpost (www.anconia.com/rocketpost) too . . .
- kwreid, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2A nice little tool. Not over-featured. It was very close to a "it just works" grade, but for a problem publishing images within a post to a Community Server blog (images not supported in its metablog API?).
Thankfully, the Live Writer team provides an alternative way to push images to a blog via FTP. A couple minutes later I was rolling. See the test post: http://blog.geeqs.net/archive/2006/08/13/846.aspx
This definitely makes posting well formatted content easier. I always had problems with a manual process to handle images in a post and some general crappy layout where I had to resort to manual HTML editing. This makes it much easier. - Himself, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0WordPad was great because it was light weight. Leave it to microsoft to bloat-ify something useful.
I can blog just fine with the Performancing firefox extension: markup, cats, and drag n drop images - pluisje2004, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Are we sure this is from Microsoft? Not only is it a great tool not centered around MS services, but it seems that also the EULA is in plain English without to much legal blablah.
- hollywoodphony, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Wow, this actually does work pretty well. I use blogger though, so I'm SOL as far as uploading pictures goes. Does anyone have any recommendations for switching? I have a fairly popular blog and I wouldn't mind switching if there was a service that would grab all my old blogger posts and bring them over automatically. Because this picture thing is really a drag.
- apollo13, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2one word .....awesome.
- cardoso, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Zoundry now has serious competition.
- spacer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Looks like they made one of the best such products...
- SolariPicasso, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1Watch out when you install this, it loads a bunch of CRAP-WARE onto your machine like Windows Desktop Search (Think AOL releasing your Data, what does this thing do?) The toolbar for IE, OnFolio (piece of crap, yet more junk know one needs). All I wanted was to try the Writer thing, what I got was simply an application abstraction of my blogs web page, what's so great about that?
- Columcille, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm not sure what you did but when I installed the writer all I got was the writer.
- y0himba, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You might want to actually READ what you are installing instead of just clicking next. There were select boxes asking you if you WANTED to install the toolbar. As for the other stuff, I have no clue where you got your install from, because none of that was included.
- DanAtkinson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5This is great! When I set it up with my blog (WP), it got my stylesheet and showed my styles exactly in the page!
Well done MS! - datenshi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Very cool program. I think I'd even use this full-time if they'd add more service-specific functions for the various blog types -- it doesn't seem to support basic Livejournal features like changing of security levels and userpics which makes it rather less than ideal for LJ users at this point, but perhaps that might change in the future.
- cubicgarden, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Tested it with Blojsom (blojsom.com) which is part of Apple's Tiger server setup.
I started with the MetaweblogAPI and categories didn't load in (even after refresh). Then I tested the MT API seems to work better on categories but alas none of them posted.
The error I'm getting is....
Server Error 1001 Occurred
org.apache.xmlrpc.XmlRpcException: Unsupported method
Shame, because I might have switched over from w.bloggar. - HTQV, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0oh. It's very interesting program! But please show me how can I use it with Yahoo account? Thanks in advance!
- Jargontalk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Hard to add to all the praise here except to say that it will surprise you in not only it's ease of installation, but it's pure functionality as well. Check out the Community Plugins. There are a couple listed there: Flickr4Writer and Tag4Writer. Have only used Tag4Writer, a fast and effective plugin that enables insertion of a list into a template for tags.
- koloman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It works for me perfect with Blogger, Flickr and the Ink plug In from Ed Holloway. Only one problem on my Tablet PC: WLW does not support for writing text the Tablet PC TIP. At least MS should support that!
- carbontwelve, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1fantastic application, its nice to see such a usefull tool coming from microsoft (shows they are learning what people want and supplying a simple, easy to use tool for the job). For a beta it is already fully featured which is a good start, I only hope it keeps getting better as its improved.
- BarryDobson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is a great application. I am using wordpress and the web preview view is really good, showing the post in the correct theme. The image input is also very handy with some nice effects available. With more plugins becoming available I can only see this product becoming better.
- ajskhan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Cool Program
- carstenwm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yea, it is!
- saran945, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Nice tool, it reduced lot of my time, I wrote a step by step tutorial to setup writer.
http://saran945.com/cs/blogs/iblog/archive/2006/11/12/live-writer.aspx
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- iamdexter, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I've been using it and its great to work with.
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