Windows Desktop Blogging
By Rob Safuto on Aug 14, 2006 in Blogging, Social Media | Tags: Blogging , Microsoft , Windows-Live-Writer
A number of sources have reported on the launch of a new blog writing app from Microsoft. The rumors are true!
Microsoft has released Windows Live Writer. It’s a desktop based application that supports posting to Windows Live Spaces and other blogging tools like WordPress and Movable Type.
I’m giving it a try right now as I write this post. So far so good. I entered my blog home page, supplied my user and password then the tool recognized my blogging application and downloaded the list of categories.
There are a couple of features that let you insert maps and pictures to your posts. I’ll try those features out once I get a few posts under my belt.
For the time being suffice it to say that I welcome the possibility of a solid, desktop based blogging tool. I’m also glad to see that Microsoft is support standards that allow integration with a number of blog apps. I’ll be trying this out for a few days and reporting on the results soon.
[tags] Social Media, Microsoft, Windows Live Writer, Blogging[/tags]
Neville Hobson | Aug 15, 2006 | Reply
I tried it too, Rob, and it’s very impressive indeed.
I had a major issue, though, in posting to my WordPress blog - the date/time setting was out by 7 years.
Yours is WordPress too. Did you have any such issue, ie, was the date/time setting correct when the post was published? If you didn’t, then there must be somehting in my particular WP setup that I need to figure out.
I’d add that I don’t have this issue with any other offline blog editor, just WLW.
Rob Safuto | Aug 15, 2006 | Reply
Neville,
I don’t think I had the issue with the publishing time being incorrect but I didn’t check the time of the post when I first published it. I believe I made a couple of small edits to the post and published again.
I will have a closer look at my next post using the tool to see if the publishing date is correct.
Rob