Windows Live Writer – Blog Post Publisher

12 Mar 2009 0 Comments

Windows Live Writer

Something drastic is happening at Redmond. Microsoft are getting things right. With the recent success of the Windows 7 Beta (which I am using right now) and the 20GB storage space that has no strings attached, Microsoft are on a roll. Ever since the internet first came about, Microsoft have struggled to wow the online world. Sure they have held the top spot in the Browser market, but that was due to it being included into every Windows machine, and Windows being the OS of choice this was bound to happen.

In the past 2 years or so, Microsoft have placed a huge amount of resources towards creating feature-loaded software to intertwine the offline world and their respective online spaces. Through its rebranding of free software to “Windows Live Essentials”, they have included an amazing application. “Windows Live Writer” allows avid blog posters to write offline, and post online. I tried this out a few months ago, but as I was not that much of a blogger I hardly took any notice of it.

But now I cant stop using it. Here I am on the train writing this post, no internet, yet creating this post with ease. It has all the features the backend of WordPress’ WYSIWYG Editor, along with the added bonus of it being all available offline. You are able to upload images, video, even maps. It even has a small image adjuster, allowing you to add watermarks, crop items, change colours and linking.

One thing it does not support however is the image captioning which can be fixed if you go into source mod. You also can’t add new blogs offline, which is understandable I guess but it does look like this is for the other blog I post in. This software doesn’t just work for WordPress. It also supports Windows Live and Sharepoint (naturally), Blogger, Typepad, LiveJournal, Movable Type, Community Server, dasBlog, Radio Userland, and Metaweblog.

Overall “Windows Live Writer” is a must have for all Windows users, who also happen to be bloggers. There are some kinks to be worked out but there is time.