New Version of Windows Live Writer
February 28, 2007 by Jason Bean
Filed under Computers
I wrote recently about blogging from within the newest version of Microsoft Word 2007. In that post I had mentioned that the functionality of blogging in Word 2007 was very similar to what had been developed in the Windows Live Writer application. Not surprisingly, it would make sense to test functionality in a small, free program distributed via the web and get user feedback from that.
There’s now a new version of Windows Live Writer being developed and the Inside Microsoft blog got their hands on a copy of it and played with it a bit.
Verdict: They’ve gone and taken what might be the best blog editing tool out there and made it better. It looks better, has a few good new features, works better connecting to your blog (no more Temporary Post For Style Detection), has an even easier and better organized interface. Great work!
Strong words. Can’t wait to get my hands on it myself. I was very pleased with the original version, so can’t wait to put some miles on the new one. Probably most exciting is easy insertion of tables. I know CSS is all the rage right now, but sometimes, you just need to present some good ol’ tabular data quickly.
The Inside Microsoft blog has lots more details about the app along with numerous, large screen shots of the functionality.
