Windows Live Writer goes open source with Open Live Writer(OLW)

Open Live Writer, Its a fork of Microsoft's Windows Live Writer and is open source. Project developed by some Microsoft developers is kept under .net Foundation.

This initial release is v 0.5 and they have a complete road map




More details can be found here at .net Foundation website.


You can download a copy at OpenLiveWriter.Org and start using it.

Microsoft announced rewards on bugs in CoreCLR and Asp.Net Beta 5

Microsoft has promised rewards to all those who find bug in Core CLR and Asp.net beta 5. The program ends on 20Jan 2016.


Following vulnerabilities will not be considered:

• Publicly-disclosed vulnerabilities which are already known to Microsoft and the wider security community
• Vulnerabilities in anything earlier than the current public betas of CoreCLR & ASP.NET 5 ( >= beta 8)
• Vulnerabilities in released versions of ASP.NET
• Vulnerabilities in user-generated content
• Vulnerabilities requiring extensive or unlikely user actions
• Vulnerabilities which disable or do not use any built in mitigation mechanisms
• Low impact CSRF bugs
• Server-side information disclosure
• Vulnerabilities in platform technologies that are not unique to CoreCLR or ASP.NET (for example IIS, OpenSSL etc.)
• Networking bugs in Beta 8 are not included.

Find more details here:  CoreCLR and ASP.NET 5 Beta Bug Bounty Program Terms