Got my hands on Windows Live Writer couple of days ago
and have been playing with it for a while. The interface looks cool, though I
would have preferred a true MDI interface. It has all the (by now) standard
formatting features (bold, italic, underline, strikethrough et al). The sidebar
with the drafts, recent posts and the Insert menu in place is a useful addition.
Also, the ability to insert a map (road map
or satellite/bird's eye view) from Live Local looks cool.
WLW has out of the box support for around 10 of the
most popular providers, though I couldn't see .Text (my favourite) listed;
presumably because this has now been subsumed by CommunityServer. MS has also
published an SDK
that enables developers to enhance the app or to develop plugins. There already
a couple of plugins featured on the WindowsLive.
However, when I tried posting on to a blog that I
have hosted on blogger, I had to login to blogger and explicitly publish from
there before the posts showed up in my blog.
I have downloaded the SDK to put together some
plugins and will be blogging about how it goes.
Cheers!
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Regards,
Sreejath S. Warrier