Updates for Windows Live Writer 2012

I have been using Windows Live Writer for blog writing. But, for some time now, it setup with Blogger was broken (due to the oAuth changes). Since, Microsoft had retired the Live writer and no development was being made, users were stuck. Found out that Microsoft has made it open source and a team has updated this.

The new App OpenLiveWriter can be downloaded from http://openlivewriter.org/

Enjoy blogging again…

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