I have been working on configuring my laptop (a Lenovo Thinkpad T61) with all the tools and gadgets and STUFF that I like to have on my laptop. Of course the Office products installed just fine, but when I went to install some of the other little things I use, like Windows Live Writer and Windows Live Messenger I got what anyone else will get if you just go to the Live site and try to install them:
Luckily, I managed to find a post where someone else was having the same sort of problem and that led me to a link to the actual installer instead of the WLinstaller. The WLinstaller doesn’t do anything on 2008 except tell you it doesn’t like any Server OS. Here is a link to a nice person who has the installer for just Windows Live Writer. Go to the bottom of the page for the one that works.
For Windows Messenger, so far I have only been able to get 8.1 to install. If anyone finds how to get the latest version installed, let me know… I am guessing you should be able to do it if you can figure a way around that stupid installer…