Comments on: Windows Live Writer a dead man walking? Please say it ain’t so Microsoft.

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Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:22:00 +0000

[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Kent Newsome, Dave Burke. Dave Burke said: This 10/19 post from WLW Team refutes that IMO. http://bit.ly/3iyrL5 r @kentnewsome: WLW dead man walking? http://bit.ly/y52Fa [...]

By: Steven Hodson

Steven Hodson — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:24:51 +0000

Thank you Mr./Mrs. Guest very much for that … I'll update the post very shortly with this info.

By: Steven Hodson

Steven Hodson — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:24:03 +0000

Ya that is one of the biggest bitches I really have with WLW right now. I lost hours yesterday trying to code something but because of the way that WLW uploads the pictures I had to cancel the idea. No matter what I tried I just couldn't pull what I needed from the post.

By: Guest

Guest — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:16:28 +0000

Don't believe what you read on mini completely. It looks like not only is the Live Writer team alive and kicking but a few weeks back at a WordCamp they announced/released some new add-ins for WordPress. http://windowslivewire.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!2…

By: Steven Hodson

Steven Hodson — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:51:03 +0000

the one other area where it falls down as well is support for things like Custom Fields in WP .. frustrating sometimes.

By: Paul OFlaherty

Paul OFlaherty — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:42:15 +0000

I've not heard anything about any new developments in ages and to be honest I've even lost track of who is on the dev team for this. Unfortunately I fear, when it comes to WordPress, development is moving far to rapidly for most offline editors to keep pace.

And with the new image editor shipping in WP 2.9 they days of a solid desktop client may be numbered.

Also, with regardless to Live Writer, which I still love BTW, when you insert an image in a post it doesn't end up in the WordPress Media Gallery, which means it's not available for thumbnail generation which is becoming more and more prevalent with magazine based themes.

By: Steven Hodson

Steven Hodson — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:37:45 +0000

Please (!!) let me know anything you find out – even by email if necessary

By: @pete_gilbert

@pete_gilbert — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:30:57 +0000

Oh feck, we were going to push this out to 2000 desktops next month to support our new blogging platform. I'm going to find out more about this first!