Microsoft Open Sources and Forks Windows Live Writer Into Open Live Writer

SmartAboutThings writes: Windows Live Writer is a blogging tool that Microsoft originally released back in 2006, and it still remains popular today, which has prompted Microsoft to promise that it will make it open source earlier this year. Now the company has officially open-sourced and forked Windows Live Writer into Open Live Writer, having put its repositories on GitHub already.

Comments

Re:Moderators are a fucking joke

[SQLGuru]

I actually mod AC posts appropriately (up or down) at times. I even skipped modding on this article just to respond. I know there are many who won't bother with AC posts, but I'm saying that *I* will mod them. And FYI, were I to have modded your post, I would have modded it as Off-topic because this article is related to Live Writer and your comment wasn't related and wasn't in response to a discussion thread.

But if there is relevant content in an AC post, I have no problem boosting it's score --- sometimes even moreso because it's AC. If there is good stuff there, I know that AC posts will automatically be dinged at least one point just for being AC.

Re:as usual, a day late and a dollar short.

[ripvlan]

Yeah - as several other folks have posted - WLW was pretty good. It was simple and had only the necessary bells-whistles. Followed the KISS principle - I couldn't believe MS created it. The only thing to come out of the "Windows Live" era that was any good.

I liked it because I did most of my writing offline (disconnected) - plus it produced "real" HTML without lots of frames-in-frames.

As for MS open sourcing it - why not? The new sheriff has committed MS to Open Source - so rather than kill off something that many liked - just upload it on SourceFor^H^H^H^H....github and enjoy the independent life.

Re:as usual, a day late and a dollar short.

[Archangel Michael]

They are releasing this stuff OpenSource, because the ecosystem is filled with similar tools that work just as well, and Microsoft needs to be relevant. Would you use these tools if they weren't free or open source? Of course not. It is out of necessity.

Microsoft is becoming less relevant each passing day. With Chromebooks, iPads, Android, iOS and whatever else is "next", there are more viable choices now than ever before.