Windows Live Writer Reloaded

by venukb on June 1, 2007

Microsoft’s Windows Live Writer is a powerful desktop based weblog client and is currently the only product I like from Microsoft’s stable. The initial beta had lot of interesting features which made it a must have for any blogger.

Review of Windows Live Writer Beta 1

There are lot of free and licensed desktop weblog clients including Qumana but not a single client is as powerful and feature rich as Live writer. Beta 2 version of Live writer is now available and there are lots of new features added into the new version.

Feature Highlights:

  • Inline Spell Checking - From now on you no longer need to manually run the spell checker.
  • Inserting/Editing Tables - You can insert and edit tables. Nice add-on
  • Support for excerpts - “Split Post” option now allows you to insert the “more” tag in the posts. Previously this could be done only via the HTML Code view
  • Better integration of local and online edited posts.
  • New look and feel

Checkout the official post for more interesting features added in Beta2

Screenshots

Download Windows Live Writer Beta 2

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{ 4 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Shivaranjan 06.02.07 at 2:09 am

Venu I just tried this out and I really found this very useful. Now blogging has become quite comfortable with windows live writer.

2 venukb 06.02.07 at 2:50 pm

shiv, yes it does make the life of a blogger easier :). By the way surprised that you were not using this earlier. Which tool were you using ?

3 Feedburner FeedCount - Online Diary 06.02.07 at 3:18 pm

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4 Shivaranjan 06.03.07 at 12:24 pm

I have been using my browser all these days. Previously when I tried windows live I actually ended in screwing my blog. Now the new version is working like a breeze and has made my blogging life real simple.

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