May 25, 2006
Got to try this. After having some issues with the first beta of Office 12, I just installed the beta 2 and it all seems to be running just fine. Although I need to get used to it, the ribbon looks really great, and the fact that Outlook integrated tasks with the follow up flags is something I was waiting for a long time already.
But one of the features that intrigued me most was the blog option in Word, which I’m trying to write this post. By the time you’re reading this on my blog, it means this features works just fine. I did notice it’s text only so far, and Microsoft mentioned that the timestamp is wrong but hopefully this gets fixed by when Office gets out of beta. They do promise to get more support to WordPress and some other blog services in the coming months.
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[...] Windows Live Writer is a sort of WYSIWYG blogging tool that allows you to blog to all major blog services like Typepad, WordPress, Livejournal and of course Windows Live Spaces. I travel quite a lot for work and being able to write blogposts while offline always interested me, that’s why the blogging function in Word 2007 beta got my attention as well. I know there are other tools as well out there, but they never really appealed to me, while Writer does. [...]