Microsoft to introduce Windows Live Writer
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#1 Posted by mrmckeb on 13 Aug 2006 - 11:34
- Or you can just blog from Word 2007 and it supports mulitple blogging sites... but I guess this will be free.
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#2 Posted by aalaap on 13 Aug 2006 - 12:00
- Wouldn't it be more appropriate if Windows Live Writer was an online web-based word processor with the added feature of being able to post to Windows Live Spaces or another blog? I don't even see the point of developing Windows Live Mail Desktop as a standalone email client. It's an upgrade to Outlook Express, but that somehow doesn't really seem to gel with the whole Windows Live initative. Shouldn't more stuff be Web 2.0? Isn't the new Windows Live Mail powerful enough to replace Outlook Express?
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#2.1 Posted by Raven Ryan on 13 Aug 2006 - 12:46
- No. If it's web-based, it'll be much easier to type a blog entry from the blogging software (i.e. Wordpress) itself. Keep in mind that some people prefer desktop applications to web-based (2.0) applications. Loading times for desktop applications are generally faster than some non-productive, laggy AJAX Web 2.0 apps.. Keep in mind that standalone products like Live Writer would be a small application.
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#2.2 Posted by PureLegend on 13 Aug 2006 - 13:00
- WLMail is ONLY for @live.com addresses.
As for an online Word processor, that's what the Office Live part of Live is for. -
#2.3 Posted by Raven Ryan on 13 Aug 2006 - 13:02
- Quote - PureLegend said @ #2.2WLMail is ONLY for @live.com addresses.
As for an online Word processor, that's what the Office Live part of Live is for.
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#2.4 Posted by BBinder on 13 Aug 2006 - 13:22
- Quote - PureLegend said @ #2.2WLMail is ONLY for @live.com addresses.
As for an online Word processor, that's what the Office Live part of Live is for.
you need to get new sources of information, as ryan said hotmail.com/co.uk work with windows live mail
you can even buy a domain ie myfrigginemail.com and have it use windows live mail by signing up on domains.live.com and then changing ur domains mail server dns
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#3 Posted by Jugalator on 13 Aug 2006 - 12:11
- lol @ screenshot
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#3.1 Posted by Smigit on 13 Aug 2006 - 12:40
- Perhaps one of the best screen shot's I've ever seen. I'm blown away.
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#4 Posted by Digital Oracle on 13 Aug 2006 - 12:19
- Right know, we have no other known features, except Spell Check, of this product untill Monday the 14th.
should it say
Right now, we have no information about the features on this product, except Spell Check, untill Monday the 14th. -
#4.1 Posted by Rodrigo on 13 Aug 2006 - 21:22
- Quote -This new product from Microsoft will allow a user to write documents/blog postings from a downloadable application called Windows Live Writer and post them to a blog (other than Windows Live Spaces). Right know, we have no other known features, except Spell Check, of this product untill Monday the 14th.
I suppose those are the features you miss to read after that sentence.
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#5 Posted by Ely on 13 Aug 2006 - 12:46
- This sounds interesting.
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#6 Posted by PureLegend on 13 Aug 2006 - 13:01
- Why can't it wrinte WLS entries then?
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#7 Posted by Raven Ryan on 13 Aug 2006 - 13:04
- From http://inside-live.com/:Quote -Now I used Windows Live Writer to make my previous post, yes straight into WordPress! It scanned the site, sadly didn’t pick me up as using WordPress. But no fear! It has a handy manual configuration which scans your site, including Comments, Categories and Posts. It then scans your theme. When it has finished grabbing all the necessary info from your site, it introduces an eansy WYSIWYG editor, complete with the theme in the background. You can even configure many settings like Comments & Trackbacks on & off and that.
I also have a copy of the blog post due to go live tomorrow @ http://windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com. It will tell you all the features and more avaliable to you.
On Monday, it will be released as an Open Beta, avaliable to anyone. It works with a wide variety of Blogging software, however I only tested it with this copy of WordPress. It also works with Live Spaces (of course) and other blogs. It will ususally pick up your blog’s backend…. if not, it has an easy step by step set up.
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#8 Posted by krimewavery on 13 Aug 2006 - 13:07
- What are the chances though it has another huge banner ad up the side like the rest of the Windows Live line
I agree though that the name suggests it to be an online word processor. -
#8.1 Posted by mrmckeb on 13 Aug 2006 - 13:33
- You do realise that these adverts are what makes the products free, don't you?
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#8.2 Posted by krimewavery on 13 Aug 2006 - 14:11
- Yes yes, but ultimately it does ruin a program, Opera for example, I'm sure was hindered on it's uptake with it's "Buy Opera today and make this ad go away" campaign. I suppose though it's the way things go. Rather than a huge banner, surely though specific text ads would be of more use to the end user and the advertiser due to a higher relevancy...
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#9 Posted by McG on 13 Aug 2006 - 13:56
- Windows Live this and Windows Live that...ugh.
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#10 Posted by *John* on 13 Aug 2006 - 14:00
- There's a lot of useless crap coming out of redmond these days....
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#10.2 Posted by mrmckeb on 13 Aug 2006 - 14:35
- I could say something nasty, but I'll take the high road. They are giving you a free tool to write your blogs with! COME ON! It even spell checks it for you!!!
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#10.3 Posted by Rodrigo on 13 Aug 2006 - 21:25
- Quote - mrmckeb said @ #10.2I could say something nasty, but I'll take the high road. They are giving you a free tool to write your blogs with! COME ON! It even spell checks it for you!!!
As Smigit said, it is probably useless to you, but I suppose you two live under a rock and don't know how many people like to blog. -
#10.4 Posted by mrmckeb on 14 Aug 2006 - 05:44
- Quote - Rodrigo said @ #10.3Actually I was being serious... I really do think that the product/idea is great - I used it today... I blog several times a week and will use this tool very often.Quote - mrmckeb said @ #10.2I could say something nasty, but I'll take the high road. They are giving you a free tool to write your blogs with! COME ON! It even spell checks it for you!!!
As Smigit said, it is probably useless to you, but I suppose you two live under a rock and don't know how many people like to blog.
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#11 Posted by AminoSC on 13 Aug 2006 - 14:13
- Oh my gawd! That sounds so totalllly COOOOOOOOL!
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#12 Posted by DaViD_BRaNDoN on 13 Aug 2006 - 14:19
- Sounds like "wBloggar"
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#13 Posted by ruey on 13 Aug 2006 - 14:34
- the tiny screenshot is funny.
i wonder what use this will be though.
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#14 Posted by webeagle12 on 13 Aug 2006 - 15:25
- those very hot features make me wonna start making out with myself right now
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#14.1 Posted by Stormforce on 13 Aug 2006 - 16:07
- Quote - webeagle12 said @ #14those very hot features make me wonna start making out with myself right now
Wouldn't that make you gay?
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#15 Posted by Charles Teague on 13 Aug 2006 - 17:47
- If you want to learn more about Windows Live Writer (including some better screenshots and a download), we've put the Windows Live Writer Space up. Check it out:
Writer Zone
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#16 Posted by UnnDunn on 13 Aug 2006 - 19:43
- I bet at MWSF '07, Steve Jobs will get on stage and announce a new version of iWeb called "iWeb Blogger" that "works with all major blogging sites." Whenever you publish a new article with it, it will play a funky animation showing your message scrunching up into little bits, travelling through a series of tubes (or maybe dumped on a big truck) on the way to the blogging site, where it will get reassembled.
He will also explain how it is a "revolutionary new feature" and that Microsoft "will copy it in Vista."
And the Mac faithful in attendance will, almost by reflex, pull out their wallets and type their credit card numbers into the Apple Store.
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#16.1 Posted by virtorio on 13 Aug 2006 - 21:08
- If you're going to write a fanboy post, can you at least try to make it funny.
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#17 Posted by S7R1K3R on 13 Aug 2006 - 20:13
- This is really cool an so far works great. I applaud MS for included other blog sites in this as well.
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#18 Posted by ket on 13 Aug 2006 - 20:25
- Windows Live Writer is available for download at http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/9...7561/Writer.msi
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#19 Posted by Unimatrix Xero on 13 Aug 2006 - 22:28
- downloaded and installed...working perfectly
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#20 Posted by a_witko on 14 Aug 2006 - 02:37
- spell check? thats awesome.
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#21 Posted by Z3r0 on 14 Aug 2006 - 02:54
- and there was I thinking they would finally update notepad & wordpad, doh.
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#22 Posted by Ely on 14 Aug 2006 - 04:34
- Oh my God I simply love this piece of software, It makes editing my wordpress blog so easy and allows me to create all types of HTML formating that is hard to do with my regular blog editor! and this feels nothing like beta it works like a charm in all aspects!!
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#23 Posted by SwitchBlade on 14 Aug 2006 - 05:55
- Thats one hell of a "screenshot".
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#24 Posted by wicker_man on 14 Aug 2006 - 08:06
- Honestly guys, the spell check feature would be EXTREMELY beneficial for the unprofessional journalists' front page news postings. Live Writer would probably be the best thing happened to this site since 2001.
Beau Giles creator of Inside-Live.com is the only known person (that we know) that has this new software from Microsoft. He gave me a few hints, but was not the person that I found out it was Windows Live Writer from. He also gave me a screenshot, but I don't know if it is the real thing:
It looks (maybe) like a screenshot from early builds of Windows Live Mail Desktop. When we get any more news from/about Windows Live Writer, we'll let you know. That is all we have now.