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Microsoft Live Writer Beta: WYS is not WYG

I downloaded Microsoft Live Writer (beta) just now to see if it was cool. It’s a WYSIWYG blog editor for Windows. Once connected to my Wordpress installation, I opted to edit an existing post.

Post shown in IE:

Actual post in IE

Post shown in Live Writer Beta:

Post in WYSIWYG editor

Uninstall.

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This entry was written by JB, posted on August 13, 2006 at 11:39 pm, filed under Musings, Web Services. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

2 Comments

  1. Ryan
    Posted August 14, 2006 at 1:40 pm | Permalink

    Finally, someone says it like it really is. When will M$ stop recycling their bad formatting and HTML-generating code?! Just another reason to use everything else. Too bad monopoly dictates that many people will be using this without question for years to come. Ugh!

  2. Payton Byrd
    Posted August 17, 2006 at 1:24 am | Permalink

    Ryan,

    What in the world does a monopoly have to do with blogging? Blogging is probably the LEAST monopolized activity on the net.

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  1. By Payton’s Random Rants / Thrashing Stinks / Microsoft Live Writer Beta: WYS is not WYG on August 16, 2006 at 11:19 pm

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  2. By Thrashing Stinks / New Microsoft Live Writer beta released on September 28, 2006 at 8:30 am

    [...] As I wrote on August 13th, the original beta had significant issues. The new beta is better, but still not up to snuff as far as style reproduction. [...]

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