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Open Live Writer is Windows Live Writer reborn

Adam Tinworth

16 Dec 2015

Windows Live Writer is reborn as Open Live Writer

This is great news for anyone on Windows. The late, lamented Windows Live Writer was by far the best blogging app on Windows, and that fact that it’s continuing will make a lot of people’s lives much easier.

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