It looks like Microsoft is pulling a Google and offering their most popular apps in a unified package. Well, it's not exactly like the Google Pack because Microsoft is only including their own homegrown programs, whereas Google also includes some third-party software (such as Norton and Skype).
The site you'll need to visit for the unified installer is http://get.live.com/wl/all. It is currently available (for
The Windows Live Writer team just posted the Beta 2 which is now available for you to download. It has a handsome list of new features, but nothing I hadn’t really seen in a blog editor before:
- Inline spell checking
- Table editing
- Ability to add categories
- Page authoring for WordPress and TypePad
- Support for excerpts and extended entries
- Improved hyperlinking and image insertion
- Paste Special
- Automatic synchronization of local and online
Windows Live Writer has become one of the most popular blogging tools for Windows-based PC users. It’s free, and a quick download which makes it easy to publish rich content to your blog. And on top of it, Live Writer works with WordPress, LiveJournal, Blogger, and others.
One thing that I’ve always liked about it is that it’s a familiar environment that’s easy to get used to. I use Microsoft software on a daily basis, and Live Writer has
One of Windows Live Writer’s biggest downfalls is that it does not allow users to insert videos before publishing articles, or maybe it is just me. Every time that I try embedding the video into the HTML code of a post it gets screwed up. What seems to happen when I try to do it is that Windows Live Writer (WLW) butchers the code in an attempt to