Ok, so Windows Live Writer does work. No doubts about that. I am too lazy to write reviews but here are a few things I found in Live Writer.
- You can save as many drafts as you like on your computer to be published later
- It supports all the formatting tags that blogger has. (I use blogger, I am not aware of WordPress and others)
- You can publish directly from the computer and you don’t need to go to the Blogger website.
- You don’t have to screw with the HTML tags and it does all the dirty work for you.
- You edit in the theme of your own blog, so its really WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU REALLY GET!
- You can configure multiple blogs
- You can insert these in a jiffy
- Pictures (no need to do it the hard way!)
- Videos (from websites)
- Tables
- Maps
- Hyperlinks ….
- Spell Check, just like a word processor.
Some features missing and bugs I found
- It screwed up some formatting of the widgets on the right bar of my blog
- Export options (to word, ppt, and so on)
- In spell check, ‘Change All’ does not work
one small point: labels does not work with blogger!
Haha.. people’s always boasting about vista’s ability to integrate EVERYTHING under the sun. But personally, I think I’m sticking to XP sp2 for while longer while vista stabilizes some more.
It just looks pretty.
Informative article…must say
You gotta b kidding me… a product by MS.. let me correct myself here again… a FREE product by Microsoft that actually works without screwing up!! Will have to try this out myself!
Well, the entire package’s actually a pretty smooth one, though I hate it as they simply update the existing search with the new one that is shipped along.
I’ve been using Live Writer for a while now, and yeah.. and am surprised to admit that it indeed works!
Why can’t Windows come up with an off line installer for products which are freeware? I’m sitting behind a proxy and all I could do was start the installation and see it go waste….