Microsoft has got a winner in its hand. And its name is Windows Live Writer Beta. This is one application that Microsoft is not only developing with enthusiasm, but also taking inputs from end users and working tirelessly on it. After a long time I have seen a Microsoft app that just works right, is not bloated, is a very small download and with lots of plugins to help it out. Don't be surprised at the ease of use that Windows live Writer Beta offers you. And it still is in Beta.
Well, now a days, beta is the in thing. Its cool to tag around Beta with the name of your product/site. I mean everywhere you go online, you would find only betas.
Okay, so I strayed off topic. The topic is the Windows Live Writer. After making about fifty posts with Writer, I would gladly recommend it to anyone. I liked w.Bloggar and Performancing, but there were a lot of stuff they didn't get right. Writer supports a lot of blogging platforms right out of the box. I have found it works best with Spaces and Wordpress blogs. It works with Blogger and Blogger Beta. Though there are two very important features that I miss a lot. One I hope will be sorted out soon, and that is labels. Writer as yet does not support Blogger Beta labels. But do expect support for it very soon.
The other feature is image uploads. And that I don't think would work anytime soon. Not that Microsoft doesn't know how to implement it. But plainly because of Google's stubbornness of not allowing any other software or platform to upload images to its server. It means only Hello and Picasa as yet support image uploads, though they to suffer hiccups as of now. And Hello is soon to be phased out. So you will have to use Picasa or go and upload images manually.
There are many other options to include images in Writer when posting to Blogger Beta such as FTP and Flickr. But I am sure you will agree it is quite cumbersome and if you are a regular blogger and have to make many posts, you just don't feel it right.
Anyway's, hoping against hope some common sense will prevail at Google and they will open the image upload API.
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