RSSMicrosoft Tests Desktop Blogging Tool
By Nate Mook | Published August 14, 2006, 12:00 PM
Microsoft on Friday released a beta of Windows Live Writer, a new application designed to create blog posts for Live Spaces and a number of other services. Appearing like a slimmed down version of Microsoft Word, the tool is available free of charge.
Users can author blog posts in a WYSIWYG environment that makes editing easy and shows exactly how the post will look when published. An HTML source code editing mode is included for more advanced users, as well as a Web preview option.
Photo publishing has been integrated into Windows Live Writer, enabling users to quickly add an image to their blog post and modify it with the application's built-in tools. Size, text wrapping, borders can be edited, and a variety of graphical effects are also available.
Microsoft has additionally including mapping support with Live Writer. Users can insert a Windows Live Local map directly into their post, and customize it to show road, aerial or bird's eye detail. Pushpins can also be added to highlight a specific point.
"Blogging has turned the web into a two-way communications medium. Our goal in creating Writer is to help make blogging more powerful, intuitive, and fun for everyone," said Live Writer team member J.J. Allaire. "Writer has lots of features which we hope make for a better blogging experience."
The application currently supports Microsoft's own Windows Live Spaces blogging service, in addition to Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, WordPress and others. Support for RSD (Really Simple Discoverability), the Metaweblog API, and the Movable Type API are also included.
Although Live Writer is still in beta, Microsoft has made available an SDK that enables developers to extend the program with additional content types. Some examples of content that could be integrated include photos from Flickr, embedded video or product images from Amazon.
Windows Live Writer 1.0 Beta is available for download from FileForum.
I was using w.Bloggar, but that site is now gone and the program is no longer working with the current Google/Blogger upgrades, and it doesn't look like the program is going to be adapted to the beta Blogger.
Live Writer is incredible nice and easy to use. It allows for massive customization, and easy 2 click setup of your Blogger account. It DOES work perfectly on WindowsXP SP2.
It's incredible nice if you ask me :)
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|Two tricks for using Live Writer
http://labnol.blogspot.c...writer-tips-tricks.html
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|excellent
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|NOTE: This program does NOT work on all Windows XP SP2 (x86) computers (as it should be doing).
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|Works here. I'm using a P4 2.6ghz x86 computer.
Does this use .Net frame work? I think it would (But dunno) so make sure you have .Net and MSI installed.
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|I have been trying to try it for whenever it was released, and I have .Net 2.0 installed (with Visual Studio 2005 EE) and I have Windows Installer 3.1 (the MSI thing).
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|Works fine for me Windows XP (5.1 Build2600),SP2, Netframework 2.0, Intel Pentium 4 running at 2.66 GHZ. In fact for a Microspud Program it seems to do what it claims to do and is relatively bug free (it's beta ok?). And yes, it will not run without Netframework installed.
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|Odd... you got the latest beta?
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|Latest beta of WLW? or what?
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|I don't know why it's working for some and not all. I would hope that the people who made the app could at least give help when needed.
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|Do you have .Net 1.1 though? Some applications require .Net 1.1 and you can have both 1.1 and 2.0 installed side-by-side.
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|I just have 2.0. I installed 1.1 just now.
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|It's working fine for me.
Does the job well too, unlike some others.
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|...so did it work?
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|I have it already installed so that's not the problem, it's getting the thing to work is the problem.
The short answer is, after nearly 36 hours, no, not working. I am really tired of getting this message: "Windows Live Writer was not able to login to the remote server using the username and password. Please check that the information is correct (which it is, by the way) and try again."
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|Another one? :(
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|Live Writer blog and download:
http://windowslivewriter...Space.aspx?_c02_owner=1
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