Review
This is a quick review
Windows Live Writer is a desktop application that makes it easy to publish rich content to your blog.
Publish to most major blog services:
Including Windows Live Spaces, SharePoint, Wordpress, Blogger and many others. Don't have a blog yet? Writer will help you set one up!
Create a compelling blog easily:
Insert photos and videos, maps, tags and lots of other cool content, all in a snap. Powerful editing features include tables, spell checker, and quick hyperlinks.
Preview before you post:
Writer shows you what your blog entry will look like before you post it, using your blog's templates and formatting.
Compose your entries offline:
Publish them later, when you get back online.
The following full-length review applies to version 12.0
Microsoft introduces Live Writer, its new freeware for creating blog entries compatible with Microsoft's Windows Live Spaces and other popular weblog services.
The software is very akin to other Microsoft products, namely Microsoft Word, so if you are familiar with this, which is very probable, you can start writing your entries immediately. You can modify the font and its size and color, add bulleted or numbered text, and so on. Also, like in Microsoft Word, you can add other elements besides the text, like tables, images, web links, tags and maps. You can add videos, too (only of your blog provider allows it). Just copy and paste the url of the video page, or upload them from Soapbox, Microsoft's video service.
If you are a serious blogger and have more than one blog account, you can manage them all from Live Spaces. Also, you can create blog entries even when you're not online, saving them for posting or editing later.
All in all, the interface of Live Writer is very intuitive, so you won't have any trouble bloggin'. |
