Longtime readers will know that I have been a huge fan of Microsoft’s Windows Live Writer offline blogging editor (see what I’ve written about it). In fact, I have to say that WLW is the ONLY application that I severely miss now that I’ve moved to MacOS X (sorry, neither ecto nor marsedit yet measure up to WLW for me) and I’m actually considering running Parallels just to be able to use it. To me, it is that good.
So I was delighted for all the Windows bloggers out there to see the tweet from Neville pointing to the Microsoft blog entry indicating that “Windows Live Writer 2008” is now available. You can download it now.
If you have never used an offline blog editor and you are on Windows, do check it out. I’ve been using offline blog editors for most of the seven years I’ve been blogging and once you start… you’ll never want to go back.
To all you Windows users, enjoy! Me? I’m thinking of firing up Parallels to give the new release a try…
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I am with you completely about WLW being the only piece of PC software I miss after migrating to Mac. I run Parallels Version 4.0 and I am afraid to conclude (after trouble shooting with Neville Hobson) – that there is a problem with WLW in Parallels. When inserting an image into a post – WLW returns an error http://bit.ly/WLW – Neville has kindly tested this for me on the same blog on his PC and proves that its neither the WordPress setup nor the hosting environment. I’ve installed it on three different Mac’s all running Parallels version 4 -and i get the same behaviour. I’ll be posting on the Microsoft and Parallels forums tomorrow to see whether we can find an explanation/resolution but thought I’d alert you to my experience. I’ll post an update when I know more.