The day has finally come and we have shipped Windows Live Writer without calling it a beta. Even though it's version number appears as 12.0.1366.1026 (I'm not sure I want to explain how a first generation product gets to be '12.0', but there it is) in the 'About' dialog, and even though it called 'Windows Live Writer 2008', it will always remain Writer 1.0 to me.
Joe, as always, has put together a great synopsis of the release featuring highlights and lowlights, and as should be the case, there aren't a lot of lowlights anymore. We spent most of the last couple of months ironing those out, and getting the product ready to be called Gold.
Congratulations to everyone who worked on and contributed to Windows Live Writer 1.0. Creating a product from nothing is an incredible challenge, and I am incredibly proud of the product that we have created.
And so you guys should be proud :) It's an awesome product.
Posted by: ScottIsAFool | November 07, 2007 at 05:20 PM
I meant to stop by and congradulate you guys on your release of live writer. Sorry I was so venting towards you guys a few months back. When you have a product that's so kick ass, you go crazy when you can't run it anymore.
Keep up the good work!
Posted by: Marcellus King | November 21, 2007 at 07:40 AM
Thank you so much for your tip on my problem! My Live Writer is back and running again, and yes, the world is all right again. Haha. I think a lot of thanks is due to you guys for creating that marvellous product. I'm not computer literate so I couldn't express much, but thank you still! For the Live Writer and for solving my problems (and for solving it fast too!).
You are tops!
Posted by: Gloria | November 29, 2007 at 01:10 AM
You commented on my blog awhile back where I was talking about WLW cutting off category labels. I've got the most current version of WLW installed I believe. Can you confirm if there's something else I might be doing wrong?
Posted by: Jason | January 06, 2008 at 10:31 PM