From Neowin.Net:
“Microsoft has launched Windows Live Writer. This is a free, downloadable application that runs on your Windows PC and allows you to write blog posts.
Since most blogging tools are web based and not all allow WYSIWYG editing (where you see on screen exactly how the blog post will look), Windows Live Writer will be useful for some writers looking for a faster, easier way to post to blogs.
Tools like this have been around for a long time. For example RocketPost is another company in this space, although they charge $12 for their software. Performancing (a Firefox plugin that people rave about) and Ecto (Om Malik uses this one) are two others. The biggest complaint about these existing services was that editing existing posts is difficult or impossible.
Windows Live Writer has a lot of bells and whistles - preview in WYSIWYG or HTML mode, support for most blogging platforms (Windows Live Spaces, Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, WordPress and others), easy insertion of photos and things like Live.com Maps, and tagging. Good stuff, but none of it differentiates it from existing year old products.
What does differentiate Live Writer is that they’ve released an API that allows developers to extend the capabilities of the software to publish additional content types.
Too bad that, like Google and Picasa, Microsoft has ignored the Mac platform.”
I was looking for such a software few weeks ago and lucky me. Microsoft released Windows Live Writer Beta. I have used it for my blog since then. It’s amazing. I came across other products too but they asked for buck$. This one comes free. Good job Microsoft! Well done! If anyone of you want to write blog entries without logging to your blog’s dashboards (CAN GET BORING SOMETIMES) then just give this software a try. Hopefully, if I get time I write a little review of it.
To those of you who are wondering where has he disappeared after 19th. Well, I am sick of politics right now. I just ignored my site too, because if I came, I would have written alot of things which were moving around in my mind hence not helping me ease down.
Forgot to mention that it’s a Beta but does work very well. So do give it a try.
this is free becoz of Google, thanks to Google coz it is changing trends…..
A bit late to this party, but have you heard of Qumana ? It’s free, runs on both PC and Mac, and it looks (at least to me) as if MS spent some time studying it whilst developing Livewriter. It’s been around for quite a while (beta released in February ‘06), almost all of the known bugs have been fixed, and it has a pretty decent following or satisfied users.
What’s most pertinent here is that it (Qumana) is cross-platyform, and operates just as well on a Mac as on a PC.