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Recently when using my new laptop I noticed a small icon in Internet explorer that I hadn't realised was there before, this icon was for windows live writer which I'm actually using to compose this blog post.

Basically it looks as if Microsoft have pulled the new blogging components out of Word 2007, beefed them up a bit and made a free standalone blogging application out of them, which seems to be really quite good.

I've used desktop blogging software before, w.bloggar, ecto, etc. but none of them feel as useful and as neat as this one.

You can install windows live writer as part of the new windows live pack which includes things like windows live messenger, desktop search etc. And though I wouldn't necessarily use all the programs in the live pack, live writer and obviously messenger live are two great products.

I'm not one to evangelise about Microsoft, and it's rare that I notice something they've done that really adds to my day to day computing experience but today they have, and if they continue along this route with a few more well thought out, useful, stable applications maybe I won't convert to Linux full time...

Update:
I've just found a slightly more indepth review which readers of this post may also find useful:
http://www.easywordpress.com/labs/offline-wysiwyg-wordpress-editor-windows-live-writer/trackback/

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