E-Volution IT

So here’s my first post from the new Live Writer V1 (Beta) (12.0.1183.516)

Cosmetically it has been brushed up to fit in with Vista. I don’t use Vista so that’s nothing I am particularly interested in. But it does look nice. Of course, functionality is most important, then looks.

• It has spell as you type. Nice
• It has a “link glossary”. This allows you to set up link text that will be converted into a link
• There are many great plugins to add various features. For instance, plug-ins to:
  • Insert video
  • Insert social bookmarks
  • Insert code
  • Insert formatted text
  • Insert non-formatted text
  • etc.
• I am yet to find out it it will clear the current post after publishing, whilst leaving Live Writer open for writing the next post. I’ll know this in a moment

Missing features?

The main one, which I previously told MS about, is the ability to increase/decrease the font size with a button for each. This is much like the feature available in Word 2007. To change the font size and face in WLW we have to go to the FORMAT menu, the FONT, and change it in there.

This one issue aside, I still consider WLW to be the nicest blog editor around.

You can get it from http://get.live.com/betas/writer_betas