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[](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/ScottHanselman/openlivewriter)
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# Open Live Writer
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Open Live Writer makes it easy to write, preview, and post to your blog.
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For more information see http://www.OpenLiveWriter.org/.
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### Installation
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You can install the latest version of Open Live Writer alongside an [older version of Windows Live Writer](http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-live/essentials). Visit
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http://www.OpenLiveWriter.org to download and install the latest release.
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### Latest News
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The current version of Open Live Writer is our first open source version.
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For a [list of known issues see GitHub](https://github.com/OpenLiveWriter/OpenLiveWriter/issues) or take a
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look at the [roadmap](roadmap.md) to see what the current plans are.
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For the latest news and updates about Open Live Writer, you can follow us on Twitter
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([@OpenLiveWriter](https://twitter.com/OpenLiveWriter)), by keeping an eye on the website
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http://www.OpenLiveWriter.org or by watching this repo and subscribing to notifications.
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### Contributing
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Open Live Writer is an open source project and wouldn't exist without the passionate community of volunteer
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[contributors](https://github.com/OpenLiveWriter/OpenLiveWriter/graphs/contributors).
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If you would like to help out then you can find more information below:
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* [Building, testing and debugging the sources](https://github.com/OpenLiveWriter/OpenLiveWriter/wiki/Building,-Testing,-and-Debugging)
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To contribute code to the project simply:
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1. Fork the repo and clone locally
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2. Create a specific topic branch, add a nice feature or fix your bug
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3. Send a Pull Request to spread the fun!
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If you haven't already, please sign the [.NET Foundation CLA](http://cla2.dotnetfoundation.org) to give us
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permission to include your code in the next release of Open Live Writer.
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This project has adopted the code of conduct defined by the [Contributor Covenant](http://contributor-covenant.org/)
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to clarify expected behavior in our community. This code of conduct has been
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[adopted by many other projects](http://contributor-covenant.org/adopters/).
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For more information see the [.NET Foundation Code of Conduct](http://www.dotnetfoundation.org/code-of-conduct).
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### License
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Open Live Writer proudly uses the [MIT License](license.txt).
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### History
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The product that became Live Writer was originally created by a small, super-talented team of engineers including
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Jeremy Allaire, JJ Allaire, Joe Cheng, Charles Teague, and Spike Washburn. The team was acquired by Microsoft
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in 2006 and organized with the Spaces team. Becky Pezely joined the team and over time, the team grew and shipped
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many popular releases of Windows Live Writer.
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As Microsoft was planning for the version of Windows Live that would coincide with Windows 8 operating system
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release, the teams that built the Windows Live client apps for Windows were encouraged to focus on building a
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smaller set of Windows 8 apps designed to work well with both traditional PC input mechanisms and touch.
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With the rise of micro-blogging platforms and other forms of sharing, eventually this team decided to conclude
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their work on Windows Live Writer with Windows Live Writer 2012.
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Even though there was no active development, Windows Live Writer continued to be a favorite tool of a passionate
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community of Windows PC users for authoring, editing, and publishing blog posts. Data from WordPress.com at the
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time suggested that Open Live Writer (even two years after active development ended) was the #1 app for authoring
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a blog post to WordPress.com from a Windows PC.
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A few employees at Microsoft took an interest in reviving Live Writer as an open source project in their
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spare time. By January 2015, a group of about a half-dozen engineers interested in spending some of their
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volunteer time to help release an updated version of Live Writer had found each other and began work on getting
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this open source fork of Live Writer formed and ready to ship. In December 2015 Microsoft donated the code
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to the .NET Foundation and this passionate group of volunteer engineers rapidly assembled the first open source
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version.
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### .NET Foundation
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The Open Live Writer project is supported by the [.NET Foundation](http://www.dotnetfoundation.org).
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