Amazingly, Microsoft has released a application called Windows Live Writer. Although it’s still in beta, it’s beginning to impress me. I’m using it to write this review and I’m making this review up as I go along.
On first run, Live Writer, or Writer for short, will ask you for your blog URL and login credentials. From there, it’ll configure itself. For me, I’m using WordPress. Writer detected that and even downloaded some layout files for the current theme I’m using. It also works on LiveJournal and Blogger. Pretty cool stuff.
On creating a new post, the editing interface in the Web Layout view gives you a WYSIWYG view of your blog entry. Just take a look at the picture above and you’ll know what I mean. Just looks like how the post will look when you post it online. Pretty cool. And there’s also a Web Preview view that simulates how the entire blog site will look like when you’ve posted the entry.
Anyhow, I shan’t go on ranting about this piece of application for too long. Can check it out for yourselves. Download it at http://writer.live.com. It’s still in beta but it’s functioning quite well. I know I’ll be using this application to post for a while… Cheers… :Þ