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Information Technology News Microsoft keeps one foot in old world with blog writer
Information Technology News Microsoft keeps one foot in old world with blog writer | Microsoft keeps one foot in old world with blog writer |
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| by Stan Beer | |
| Tuesday, 15 August 2006 | |
  
True to its roots, Microsoft has kept one foot in the old world by making Windows Live Writer a desktop based tool instead of a web-based editor. However, being a desktop based tool gives the Microsoft application some of the advantages and power that desktop tools have over their web-based counterparts. Windows Live Writer allows users to display text and position images with the sort of WYSIWYG precision that most inbuilt online blogging editors simply cannot do. It can be likened to a desktop publisher for bloggers. Another attractive feature of Windows Live Blogger, apart from the fact that it's free, is that it works with a range of blogging services other than Microsoft's own Windows Live Spaces. It even works with Google Blogger. So what we have in essence is a free Microsoft WYSIWYG blog editor that works on the desktop but is compatible with some of the most popular online blogging services. Where's the catch? {moscomment} |
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