Windows Live Writer lost its gas ??!!
It has been 10 months since I wrote my detailed review on Windows Live Writer. Though I liked the Windows Live Writer a lot then, I never really used it for blogging actively.
After so many months, I thought I wanted to use Windows Live Writer for one very lengthy and comprehensive review of something on the web (not going to tell you what it was about 
You will have to wait to see that blog). Blogging a lengthy post staying online would take lot of time. I thought using Windows Live Writer, I could blog as and when I find time and then publish it in one shot.
But then I just remembered that my PC was reinstalled with Window XP once and I had not installed Windows Live Writer since then. So went about searching for “Windows Live Writer” on Google and came across this official blog cum home page for Windows Live Writer. I believe this is being maintained by the developers of Windows Live Writer.
Having been away from Windows Live Writer for so long I was really curious to know what was happening to this blogging client. So I clicked on this link to see their posts. To my surprise, since November 2006 there has been not a single post in their “OFFICIAL BLOG”
Has Microsoft realized that blogging client is by no means generating money for them. Whatever be the reason, one thing is for sure – Windows Live Writer has lost its gas and I believe you are not going to see any more releases of Windows Live Writer.
Windows Live Writer…. RIP!!
Actually Windows Live Writer is alive and well, although it has been too long since our last release and FAR too long since our last blog post. Even though we haven’t released anything in 10 months, we haven’t slowed down in development so our next release will have enough new features and bug fixes to count as Version 3.0 by anyone else’s standard.
Everyone at Microsoft that we’ve come into contact with is very excited about and supportive of Writer–this is definitely the beginning, not the end.
Thanks for giving me an update
. If you are from on the WLW team, then you should definitely update your offcial blog with whatever you’ve just told me. This is what a user would expect to see in the official blog site – an update on whats coming next and whats happening to the software that he is using.
http://windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com/
Just to let you know..a new beta 2 version is available, in case you missed it
Now, you may post entry in your blogs with Microsoft Word 2007, it’s very cool!!!