Windows Live Writer

Microsoft has, as part of “Windows Live” published a tool to write blogs called Live Writer.

It is an interesting tool as Microsoft often make good software when they first decide to do so. Lets just hope they decided to make this software good. (This blog post is written with Live Writer.)

These are the highlights from Live Writer:

• Spelling, in English.
• Can upload images and creates thumbnails as well. It can even upload the images to a separate FTP server of your choice if you want.
• Supports many blog platforms, including Blogger that I use.
• Can preview how the blog entry will look on your web page. (It can post a test-post and download the result…)
• Creates clean HTML the way I want it.

Conclusion

My first impression is that Live Writer is made for Windows Live blogs. When I chose “other blog platform” where all the other blog platforms exist they still wanted me to cross-post to Windows Live.

But except from that I like the Live Writer. Try it yourself. It comes with Windows Live, which you download anyway to get the latest version of MSN. Because of this fact you may already have Windows Live Writer installed on your computer.