Astoundingly… astounding!
I discovered this evening that, as part of their Windows Live! Services, Microsoft provide a Blogging tool called ‘Writer’. Now it would have been easy for them to only make it work with Live! Spaces and nothing else, but what I actually found was something much cooler. It supports WordPress, and as such I am writing this post from the app in question. Minds are slowly opening up at Microsoft I think. Slowly but surely they are learning that there is a big world out there that is outside and has some super cool stuff going on. While a nice blogging tool is only a tiny thing to most people, it’s just another sign. More of this please Microsoft, and less threats of legal wrangling with Open Source authors.
UPDATE: slightly disappointingly, the Tags system in writer doesn’t interact correctly with the tag cloud database in WordPress. Not a biggy but still a bit of a bummer.
April 16th, 2008 at 5:13 am
I’ve been using Writer for quite awhile on my Vista machine, and it’s pretty good. Blogger doesn’t seem to have “tags” so much as “categories,” which Writer works well with.
Although Blogger doesn’t yet officially supports releasing posts in the future, which saddens me somewhat. (Blogger in Draft supports it, but I don’t know how they’ll get that feature going when they finalize it, and how Writer will work with it.
… But anyway.