Pkchukiss - Reality Wine

On the recommendation of Lockergnome, I decided to try out Microsoft’s new offering, the Live Writer for blogs.

As they have caught the “beta” bug, pioneered by Google, and followed eagerly on the coatails by Microsoft and all the other major companies, this program is kept quite hush-hush, as if it were some illicit off-spring.

Yet it is a refreshing experience, especially when I was faced with a whole load of configuring to do with other post editors; Live Writer was able to jump right out of the box with only the most basic information (my blog address, login ID and password).

This, coming when you got tired of opening script files to make customisations, proved to be a welcome change. The program even managed to emulate my blog’s actual interface, and slap it on as the skin, so that I can view, and edit the post as if it were directly on the website!

If you are inclined, or don’t know where to start, the initial interface offers to set you up for MSN Spaces, Microsoft’s solution to Blogger.

Coming from a company known for its complacency (after all, it took them 6 whole years to get their butts off the seat, and start coding Internet Explorer 7), this is an interesting development indeed!

Perhaps Google had better watch this development carefully, it just might take the rug right off their feet if they are not cautious enough!

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