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"It [MT4] was worth the wait."

- Network Computing, June 28, 2007

"The new version's enhancements keep Movable Type ahead of the rudimentary blogging capabilities vendors such as IBM and Microsoft have begun putting in their collaboration platforms. 'No one has anything as robust as Movable Type. Six Apart has a big head start,' said Rob Koplowitz, a Forrester Research analyst."

- PC World

"Along with a major change to its interface and a focus on ease-of-use, MT4 includes more than 50 new features. Among those features are more powerful template management tools to speed site development, an installation and upgrade wizard and new themes designed to help users create an attractive blog within minutes."

- Internetnews.com, June 5, 2007

"Six Apart is recognizing the difference between the 'Hey! Listen to me!' tone of consumer blogging and the 'We need to settle down and get work done' ethic needed in business."

- Rob Koplowitz, a Forrester Research business software analyst.

"The laundry list of new features is long and needed: installation Wizard, new UI, system dashboards, better image insert feature (yes!), redesigned template management tools and WYSIWYG editor, and so on. Even more significant, assuming they work, will be community-management tools for managing readers' comments. Readers who wish to respond to a blog will be able to join the website's community (through MT tools) and post their own photos, videos, audio, as well as text."

- InfoWorld, June 5, 2007

"The part about the new MT that I find interesting is the promise of social networking features. I've been spending some time lately trying to find an out-of-the-box social network..."

- CNET, June 5, 2007

"One of the most important new additions is a file/asset manager, which pushes Movable Type that much closer to being a full-blown content management system."

- Informationweek, June 29, 2007

"The releases [of the Enterprise and Community Solutions] are the latest stages of Movable Type's evolution from corporate blogging package to what Chris Alden, executive VP and general manager of professional software at Six Apart, describes as a 'lightweight content management system.'"

- Computer Business (UK)

"The company [Proctor and Gamble] has brought on Movable Type blogging software, which employees have used to create hundreds of blogs, including ones by the VP of design (inspired by a blog by General Motors design guru Bob Lutz); by the public relations department on how to discuss company issues externally; and by [Joe] Schueller [Innovation Manager], read mostly by IT folks. In the next few months, P&G will launch social networking intended to make it easier to find people with needed expertise."

- Informationweek, June 28, 2007

"Not content with being the social software of choice for everything from one-man megaphones to major corporate sites, it now wants to function as a content management system (CMS) for whole websites. Two years ago, this would have been laughable. Today, it may not be. Blogs are at the center of many major sites, and a basic template approach to everyday Web pages (not just ones we think of as blogs) is viable."

- Steve Fox, InfoWorld

"Movable Type 4 (MT 4) boasts more than 50 new editing and system management features. It offers business bloggers new content and media management tools that make uploading documents, photos and videos easy.

Users can also create standalone Web pages with fixed types of information -- a use for which blogs, with chronologically updating pages, are less suited. MT 4 also provides design templates to give complex websites a unified thematic look."

- Reuters

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