Windows Live Writer

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006 | Tech News

Today I am writing to you from my test install of Microsoft Windows Vista RC1 Build 5600 and Windows Live Writer Beta. I have been using Vista for about a week and so far so good. The Aero Glass interface is quite beautiful and I do like some of the security enhancements that have been made, but others have written about Vista so I will leave the critique to them.

I have also read good things about Live Writer, many of the blogs I read have said it is the best thing Microsoft has done in years. One issue that came up when I installed in on my Vista partition was the installer kept asking for .Net 2.0 to be installed even though it alredy was. Then the Live Writer install said it failed because of this. I took a look in my installed programs app and was puzzled when Live Writer was listed. Im not sure what happened but the install seems to have worked regardless of the previous errors.<!–more–>

One of the coolest features I've come across in my 10 minutes with Live Writer is the Windows Live Map. You can quickly paste a map into your blog post of any location in the world. Check it out.