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Windows Movie Maker
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video editing software
Key facts
- Developer
- Microsoft
- Initial release
- September 14, 2000 ; 25 years ago ( 2000-09-14 )
- Final release
- 2012 (v16.4.3528.0331) / April 18, 2014 ; 12 years ago ( 2014-04-18 )
- Operating system
- Windows 7 , Windows 8 , Windows 8.1 , Windows 10
- Platform
- IA-32 and x64
- Included with
- Windows Me , Windows XP , Windows Vista
- Successor
- Microsoft Photos ( Windows 10 ) , Clipchamp ( Windows 11 )
- Available in
- 64 languages
- Type
- Video editing software
- License
- Freeware
- Website
- support .microsoft .com /en-us /help /18614 /windows-essentials
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- video editing software
- Followed by
- Windows Live Movie Maker
- Creator
- Microsoft
- Developer
- Microsoft
- Platform
- x86-64
- Official website
- windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-live/movie-maker-get-started
- Image
- MovieMaker image and audio track.png
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- software version identifier
- 16.4.3528.0331
- inception
- 2000-09-14
- operating system
- Windows Vista
- discontinuation date
- 2017-01-10
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2017-01-10
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Encyclopedic overview
Windows Movie Maker (known as Windows Live Movie Maker for the 2009 and 2011 releases) is a discontinued video editing program by Microsoft. It was first included in Windows Me on September 14, 2000, and in Windows XP on October 25, 2001. It later became a part of the Windows Essentials software suite, and offered the ability to create and edit videos as well as to publish them on OneDrive, Facebook, Vimeo, YouTube, Windows Live Groups, and Flickr. It is comparable to Apple's iMovie.
Movie Maker was officially discontinued by Microsoft on January 10, 2017, and it was replaced by Video Editor (formerly Microsoft Story Remix) which was built in with Microsoft Photos on Windows 10, and later Clipchamp on Windows 11, which Microsoft acquired in September 2021.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Windows Movie Maker” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.