Microsoft will breathe life into Windows Live Writer by open sourcing the eight-year-old blog-publishing tool, a company manager said earlier this week. “We are going to open-source Live Writer, so ...

Microsoft plans to open source its Windows Live Writer tool in the coming months. The application, once included in the Live Essentials bundle along with Live Messenger, SkyDrive, and various other ...

A group of Microsoft engineers today made good on a June promise and released an open-source version of the venerable Windows Live Writer, a tool that continued to be popular among bloggers even after ...

Windows Live Writer is a blogging tool designed to make it easy to compose and publish posts on websites using WordPress, Blogger, Typepad, Sharepoint, or several other popular blogging platforms. But ...

There have been rumors for a while that Microsoft might open source its Windows Live Writer blogging tool. On December 9, Microsoft offficials announced a fork of that tool is being open sourced under ...

Sometimes Microsoft creates a piece of software that doesn’t necessarily catch on with the general public but still wins over a dedicated core of users. Typically these programs die a long, slow death ...

Another day, another “Microsoft open-sources something” story. At the weekend it was the Chakra JavaScript engine. This time, it’s Live Writer, the blogging tool that provides offline, WYSIWYG editing ...

Generative ‘AI’ isn’t just useful for making bad writing and bad images, it can be used to make software code, too. (I’ll refrain from judging it as bad or good — I’m a writer and a graphic designer, ...