Anyone received the update request for Windows Live Messenger? Well, I did and it includes a Google Pack-like collection of tools including Windows Live Writer. It took 1 minute to hook it up to my Wordpress blog and write my first blog post:
Images can be easily inserted and are automatically uploaded to your blogging application.
It has a simple WYSIWYG editor, has different preview modes (web, normal, html), has a spell checker (which Wordpress and many other blogging applications are missing) and allows you to manage multiple blogs. Because who is only blogging on one blog nowadays? (wink)…. It also has a link library (=glossary) to previously used hyperlinks or blog post which is very useful.
I will have to try a couple more posts to make sure it is working all fine. And if it is, I will be rolling it out to our other authors on MIKE2.0 Information Development blog and imCollab, the BearingPoint internal collaboration site…
May 5th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
I like this tool as it helps with blog formatting problems and has a lot of add ons. Unfortunately it has the worst installer of any blog authoring tool. You need to use the Windows Live installer pack and have Windows Update switched on - a no-no in a lot of enterprise standard desktops. There is a secret standalone install that is simple and effective but not widely available as Microsoft are trying to push people towards the full Live installer to encourage extra Live products.