12 December 2015

Open Live Writer will be taking over the Windows Live Writer

 The maximum message bloggers these days is Windows Live Writer circle always in the action began, Microsoft announced on 2015/12/9, the blogger's publishing tools software Windows Live Writer (hereinafter referred to as WLW) converted to open-source project, so that Live Writer to become .NET Foundation of a, and the WLW renamed Open Live Writer (hereinafter referred to as OLW). This paper is published in OLW0.5 article.
Some friends may still not know much about what WLW its advantages, WLW is actually blog articles offline editing tools, bloggers generally must be connected to the back-end network to blog writing articles, some bloggers will first use Word to write articles After the good and then copy and paste the background, but the picture there is no way, but also worried blog backend system or network disconnection caused instability written articles wasted effort. WLW allows bloggers to write articles without the need for connecting networks of the situation, but can also put pictures and descriptions, like WYSIWYG connected to the Internet in general, after written so have internet connection and then publish to blog you can, less to a lot of trouble, but also very convenient, the work bears all blogs are using this software to write the article.
WLW published by Microsoft from 2006, and there have been several updates during the revision, the final version of the 2012 edition, and then it is not to see updates, even maintenance is belated, and network technology and the ever-changing, but Microsoft and are unable to revision, use who have no right to the revision, such as May 2015 Google's Blogger use OAuth 2.0 new authentication method once make use Blogger with WLW bloggers hurt.
OLW become advantages discharge source project that I will have an updated version start to appear, will not be the same as WLW only the 2012 version will stop updating.
At present the first version of OLW 0.5, and only the English version, should be used to take over the direct release from WLW2012, but according to published on RitHubfuture roadmap Roadmap , version 0.6 will quickly correct some errors based on user feedback and version 1.0 will support more languages ​​, will also provide test components, version 1.1 will further support Azure AD (AAD), may PO messages on Facebook / Twitter, Markdown ... and so on, the future is really quite OLW people expect .
According to legend, the OLW0.5 and WLW2012 do some comparison, OLW remove some features, but also added a feature:
  1. Remove Spell Checker 
  2. Remove Blog This API 
  3. Support OAuth2.0
  4. Support Windows10, this WLW2012 also be installed in Windows10.
OLW work bears tested after installation and found that it can coexist with the original WLW, also can be read directly into the original draft and articles have been published WLW, the installation of ways WLW2012 almost exactly the same as the original, is also nothing too big difference, but currently only in English, based on these experiences, the work is not yet suggest that you bear now install OLW0.5, the general recommendations of the user when to install OLW1.0 how come too late Mandarin Department , wore a short time with WLW2012 first.
If you still want to be early adopters, here is the OLW related site!

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