Welcome to the Windows Live Writer team blog! We are excited to announce that the Beta version of Windows Live Writer is available for download today.
Windows Live Writer is a desktop application that makes it easier to compose compelling blog posts using Windows Live Spaces or your current blog service. Blogging has turned the web into a two-way communications medium. Our goal in creating Writer is to help make blogging more powerful, intuitive, and fun for everyone. Writer has lots of
features which we hope make for a better blogging experience. Some of
the ones we are most excited about include:
WYSIWYG Authoring
The first thing to notice about Writer is that it enables true
WYSIWYG blog authoring. You can now author your post and know exactly
what it will look like before you publish it. Writer knows the styles
of your blog such as headings, fonts, colors, background images,
paragraph spacing, margins and block quotes and enables you to edit
your post using these styles. ...
Photo Publishing
Writer
makes inserting, customizing, and uploading photos to your blog a snap.
You can insert a photo into your post by browsing image thumbnails through the "Insert Picture" dialog or by copying and pasting from a web page...Photos can be either uploaded directly to your weblog provider (if they support the newMediaObject API) or to an FTP server.
Writer SDK
Already thinking of other cool stuff you want to insert into your blog? Good!
The Windows Live Writer SDK allows
developers to extend the capabilities of Writer to publish additional
content types. Examples of content types that can be added include:
- Images from online photo publishing sites
- Embedded video or audio players
- Product thumbnails and/or links from e-commerce sites
- Tags from tagging services