Open Live Writer – Looks and works just the same as Windows Live Writer

As I mentioned, when I got back to a Windows machines I downloaded the very small (<5MB) Open Live Writer and let it install. As of right now, it’s a very stripped down installer, as in you don’t get to pick any options, but that’s no problem. It copied over just fine, presented the usual blog config dialog box and was up and running in just a minute. From there, it looks just like Windows Live Writer. In fact, if you have the two of them side by side, I doubt you could tell the difference. The layout is the same, the ribbon is the same, and all the buttons and drop downs are in the same place. The UI is the same from 2012 and hasn’t been trashed up to look like Windows 10 yet. Maybe we’ll get lucky and they keep it that way? I’m quite excited over this project and think it’s a big step forward that […]

Windows Live Writer resurrects itself as Open Live Writer

Here’s the irony, just as I’m looking for Blog software for the Mac, I come across an article stating that Windows Live Writer is coming back from the dead and has been released as an Open Source project from Microsoft under the name Open Live Wrtier. So, you mean one of the better blogging tools out there isn’t really dead after all? Windows Live Writer launched in 2006 and had some pretty good updates and was a suprisingly usable tool. In fact, it’s still my primary publishing tool, even though the last release was in 2012. It still works with WordPress, so why change? However, it’s been a few years and with all the changes going on, it seems only a matter of time until it stops working, so better get ahead of the curve and see what else is out there. My first port of call was the new WordPress desktop app from WordPress themselves, which looks pretty neat […]