Saturday, June 2, 2007
Windows Live Writer
As part of Microsoft's badly-received Live web products, Windows Live Writer is a curious addition to Microsoft's product set. Live Writer provides surprisingly Microsoft-agnostic support for bloggers to use a conventional Windows application to post entries to their blog.
As most will know, using all but the most sophisticated web apps results in a less than fluid experience, and often functionality such as copy and paste is left out in the cold.
Windows Live Writer gives the blog community a way of publishing using a desktop application that offers copy and paste (including images), WYSIWYG HTML editing, multiple account management, all wrapped up with the fluidity that makes writing much more dynamic than can sometimes be the case with web-based blog editors.
As an example: if a blog is published by Blogger to a third-party website, Live Writer will allow the user to publish via the Blogger interface, but upload directly to the user's third-party FTP site.
Windows Live Writer goes to show what Microsoft can achieve when they have a clear goal. Quite simply it is clean, easy to use and very effective.
Off topic- I been reading your posts on the EeeUser forums about that dang modem.I purchased an ASUS EEE to use with dialup because I live in the desert with no wifi. Question is does it have one or not? And when is ASUS going to come clean on it? I know you may not have an answer to the second question, but it seems that most folks are having the same problem. I called ASUS and got bounced around to one tech to another until I was put on hold and the connection was lost. Just thought I post this here because it seems you know what your doing.
//bob
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