
Having said that, trying Microsoft Office alternatives is surely the easy way out. Then there’s one feature that most of us aren’t a fan of – The Price Tag. are loaded with features but, practically getting used to all of them would take weeks of training. The software itself is also no longer available for download from Microsoft.Microsoft Office apps like Word, PowerPoint, Excel, etc. On January 10, 2017, Windows Essentials 2012 and all its apps, including Windows Live Writer, reached the end of support, meaning it would no longer receive new features, bug fixes, and security updates.

Version 2012 became the last major update to both the Windows Essentials suite and the Writer app. On August 7, 2012, Windows Live Writer 2012 was released as part of the Windows Essentials 2012 suite. Released on September 30, 2010, Windows Live Writer 2011 introduced the new Ribbon user interface. On December 15, 2008, Windows Live Writer version 2009 was released as part of the Windows Live Essentials suite. Also improved integration to SharePoint 2007 support, new APIs enabling custom extensions by weblog providers, automatic synchronization of local and online edits, integration with Windows Live Gallery, and support for "Blogger Labels". It includes inline spell checking, table editing, ability to add categories, page authoring for WordPress and TypePad, support for excerpts and extended entries, improved hyperlinking and image insertion, and a new "Paste Special" function. On November 6, 2007, version 2008 was released. Windows Live Writer was based on Onfolio Writer, a product Microsoft obtained from the acquisition of Onfolio. Windows Live Writer was localized to 48 different languages. Windows Live Spaces, WordPress, and TypePad had all taken advantage of this API to expose additional service-specific features within Windows Live Writer. Windows Live Writer introduced the Provider Customization API that enables both rich customization of Windows Live Writer's behavior as well as the opportunity to add new functionality to the product. The software featured WYSIWYG authoring, photo-publishing and map-publishing functionality, and was compatible with Windows Live Spaces, SharePoint blogs, Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, WordPress, Telligent Community,, JournalHome, the MetaWeblog API, the Movable Type API, Blogengine, Squarespace, and all blogs that supported Really Simple Discovery.
