Windows Live Writer - Beta Released
Just saw via Brad Wilson's blog that Microsoft has just pulled the covers off a new Beta Product dubbed Windows Live Writer. Click here for all the details. Since my first post I have been a BlogJet user and found that experience to be a nice environment to author posts. I really have nothing against BlogJet, but decided this was worth it to check out.
So far the experience has been pretty good. I have not tried some of the cool features such as embedding pictures, maps or anything like that, but just the basics seem to work pretty well. The connection setup was really seamless and the HTML view is pretty nice. At least from Community Server it also download the theme so you are writing the blog entry if a very WYSIWYG way, which is nice.
I will probably continue to try and author posts in both and see how the experience compares. I have not found one feature to be that killer feature that would make me switch immediately, although my posts tend to be text based so I do not use a lot of the advanced features. But, for someone who has been looking for a free tool to publish their blogs this is probably something you would want to check out.
If you want to download right away you can download here.