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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -18/+40Very cool. And they say MSFT can`t innovate ?
- jthomp, on 10/12/2007, -5/+22Downloaded and installed it last night. Nice UI, easy to use, I think it's a good thing they released something like this.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20Umm...it's a tech news site, *****. Not everyone sits around and discusses political news all the time. Go eat a *****, and quit bitching. Hell, you're in here, so you must have taken some time away to discuss something else besides what CNN stuffs down our throat. What a douchebag.
- Popdmb, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16Welcome to Digg, Gerry! We're glad to have you. You can head on over to the Politics section and vent your frustations to others in Political Opinion. You might want to steer away from the Michelle Malkin links as you'll probably want to kill yourself afterward...
But this is the technology section. Most of the users here are interested in posting industry-related news (like the Windows Live Writer) and are really open-minded, eager to help, and shy away from arrogance. Got it?
Good. Now take your medication or head over to the politics you f*cking asshat. - SpeckledJim, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14Yeah, they should try sticking a single letter in front of an otherwise mundane name to make it exciting. Then maybe tack on a "Pro" to give it that businesslike edge, a nice large version number to make it sound like they've been working on it for decades, and perhaps an animal name for a bit of fun.
mBlogWriter Pro 15.2 Armadillo. There, much better. - fizzyalex, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13User name says it all about this troll.
Don't feed the trolls. - oscotto, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Someone didn't take their medication today.
- ldhertert, on 10/12/2007, -23/+29and I'm sure that it will output well-formed, efficient html that will render correctly across all major browsers.
- aliguana, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8can you post to Blogger, Typepad, Wordpress, Livejournal etc with iWeb? thought not.
this is more like Ecto for Windows. Except you can already get Ecto for Windows. And wBloggar. And Semagic. And performancing. etc etc
Good that Microsoft have released a free blogging tool, but its VERY beta at the moment. One to watch though - Tabris, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8huh? 2 and a half? That would make it..the beginning of 2004? What happened then?
- MoeB, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7because some people may not have word.
- bontaq, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9He's kidding. The joke isn't very funny though.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8So why can't this simply be a Word plugin instead?
- neoform, on 10/12/2007, -15/+20No, microsoft CAN innovate, it's more that they chose not to, instead they wait until there's competition, then they steamroll them. Once they have control of the market again, they go back to their usual tactics of overcharging and providing nothing new.
ask yourself this, XP is more than 5 years old now.. why does it cost the same today as it did when it first came out.. ? surely the cost of R&D for XP has been recouped... - superterran, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10I wish Microsoft would come up with a naming convention for products that run on a local machine versus web based services. It took me a few minutes to realize that this was an actual application, I thought it was a new Windows Live Service that was designed to emulate the Office GUI. Oh well, pitty it won't run on Mac - it looks like it's pretty good software.
- theonlyvlad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Because this way users don't have to buy MS Office. Because that is expensive, and not everyone has it preloaded OEM, and not everyone is ok stealing it either.
- billybob476, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Coldfusion generates HTML now?
- thebigmatay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Pssh my blog editing tool is so much better. It's called emacs.
** Is there nothing better than a vim vs. emacs flamewar? ** - IQ70, on 10/12/2007, -16/+19Why is this ^^^ comment getting dug up? You people like spreading FUD?
The guy who wrote this software also created Cold Fusion. You think he doesn't know HTML? - goblindegook, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@acomj: It's different in the sense that this is not a javascript word processor, but a blog posting application. And a pretty sweet one at that, I have to admit.
- MoeB, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5First of all, not it's not. Second, iWeb doesnt work with blogger,wordpress and other 3rd party blogging services. 3rd... don't use iWeb. Try this... make a website in iWeb then put on your sunglass and open the html source. You'll puke.
- scrambled, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8"huh? 2 and a half? That would make it..the beginning of 2004? What happened then?"
Bush's re-election? - estvir, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This functionality is available in Office 2007, but that's not released yet and it costs money.
Microsoft does something nice, for free, and you whores can't give them the credit they deserve. - MoeB, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5@ "Well, maybe that's because this is just like iWeb? ;)"
have you ever used iWeb? Did you read the article? They are not the same thing. -.- - billybob476, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I doubt anyone at MS thinks that.
- jesstech, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Too bad it can't write valid XHTML.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3This is basically like every other blog editor, only now it's going to have MS branded all over it. Worth it? I dunno.
- Popdmb, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5Direct link:
http://windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!D85741BB5E0BE8AA!174.entry - dareiff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I just tried out Live Writer, and I'm pretty impressed. For some reason, through the name I was expecting some sort of online application like writely.. I guess I just haven't grasped what Microsoft is trying to do with their LIVE product line.. I'll probably install it on my PC, and keep using FLOCK on my mac...
I don't like paying for software, so if I can't get it freeware, I tend to steal. If I can't steal. Well, I just find something a little less friendly, but free.
Anyway, Live Writer was very intuitive (like it should be), and I really like the Live preview..
That's just my 2 cents.. Haven't posted a comment on digg for awhile..
-derek - uownedge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Kind of seems like a good idea. It's good that they are presenting something like this, so long as they target the right audience. Personally, I generally don't care for these kind of tools. I, much like many other geeks with the same, or more know how than I have, have written their own custom tools for updating their blog, and it's all they need.
A tool like this, however, is nice for the general public, who wouldn't know beans about building a blog from scratch. And since blogging is popular right now (and growing), they picked the right time to bring forward such a product.
I do agree that the name is confusing though -- I had expected it to be an online service, as opposed to a local application. - tuxuser, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4looks like massive bule goop
- kendals, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Just so everybody knows- this DOES post to Wordpress blogs, and it works very well doing so. It's quite nice, actually. Needs to fix the bug where it stretches your images, then makes them a link to a smaller image...
- lagerbottom, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I have a powerful blog authoring tool...it's called vim.
- adolfojp, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2If it renders xhtml like ASP.NET 2.0 does then it must do a brilliant job with standards.
No, I am not being sarcastic. Really, go try it out if you don't believe me. - Neuromancer, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4I'm really digging this, this is the first app to come out of Microsoft that I'm excited about. It's a little similar to iWeb but certainly has a lot of potential.
- Tabris, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@scrambled:
a re-election isn't anything like a terrorist attack, to my knowledge...so it still makes no sense. - IQ70, on 10/12/2007, -9/+9He was being sarcastic. I guess you know that?
- jbo5112, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"The guy who wrote this software also created Cold Fusion. You think he doesn't know HTML?"
*shudders* Cold Fusion. I hate that language. SO inconsistent and (at least version 6.1) easy to crash the server. - jefffm, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4@IQ70
have you used cold fusion before? it generates pretty ***** html. this doesnt really validate your point. - llbbl, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1MSFT can't innovate. They just take popular ideas and copy them and come up with stupid tag names like Windows Live Writer.
- iceblue, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1That's not the same thing. The first one only works with Blogger. The second isn't even really out yet. If anything WLW is an extension or free version of Word 2007's blog tool.
- dotdean, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0http://www.pl0g.de/wordpress/2006/08/14/microsoft-will-auch-mitbloggen/
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Dupe.
http://digg.com/software/Windows_Live_Writer_First_Impressions
Just saying, for the record. :p - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4It has been done before:
Once by Blogger - http://buzz.blogger.com/bloggerforword.html
and Once by Microsoft - http://blogs.msdn.com/joe_friend/archive/2006/05/12/595963.aspx - scrambled, on 10/12/2007, -7/+5Geeze, they might as change their name to Live. What's up with their lack of original product-naming?
- dchest, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3Innovative? :)
Look here: http://digg.com/software/The_Microsoft_s_Rip_Off_Game - talledega500, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Oh BOY....Frontpage 2.0 I can hardly wait!
- andre3000, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1"why does it cost the same today as it did when it first came out.. ?"
because of inflation ? - Blazeix, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2I was wondering about how the source would look too. I'm really surprised that this reviewer didn't even mention the source code.
- acomj, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2Er...
How is this significanly different than the javascript word processors that have been around for a while.
This has a few more features but had more than 2 developers. -
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