Windows Live Writer Beta Review

Welcome to world of blogging!

I am not welcoming myself to this new blog just writing the first message i recieved on starting Windows Live writer Beta.

On installing it ask to have an account with spaces.live.com if you don't have any blogging account else just put in your blog address and authentication details. I was having blogger account so put them in and wooosh ..... also all major blogging script are supported whether it is hosted with blogger/wordpress or on our own hosting with any type of blog script.

Next it asks for whether you'll upload images along with blog or not and make you to traverse through your ftp account to the image folder ..... don't know how will it work for blogger hosted images. There I tried to made a new folder on my hosted ftp account for which option was given however it was not working (still beta). Then it was asking for path or the actual url of the folder.

Setup is complete so here comes the really cool interface with screen shot posted. I am really impressed with the WYSIWYG editor in tools there was option to ping the servers for every published post, option to use proxy, to auto save the draft and last not the least a option to get a preview of how my blog would look like with every other widget in place.

Also the best thing was the option to use widgets for many kind of things like embedding a flickr pics or youtube video or to put in an adsense for a particular post. Large number of widgets were available for use already considering it is in beta only.

Overall rate it at 8 out of the scale of 10 as I am not much fan of Microsoft product however I am really impressed with this clean interface.

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