Windows Live Write leaves Beta and moves into the bundle-ware stage. This was announced two days ago on the Windows Live Writer blog, but like previous releases, the http://writer.live.com/ URL just redirected you to some crap http://get.live.com/wl/coming_soon page. Luckily the Windows Live Writer blog has a Send Feedback link, so I did just that to tell how crap they are! and promptly gave up on the update.
Today I read that the installer in has a “new” workflow, so tried it out and the URLs all work just fine now. I agree with Kevin that the new installer is pants. In fact it’s like Microsoft wants to reinvent the control panel and have made their own just for Live (tm) software.
So I’m not using version 12 of Windows Live Writer, and I’ll see how it goes, but on the whole I’m not impressed with the change to the installation model..