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Latest version of the Microsoft Live is released on 12/Feb/2009 . It is one of the good software for blogging. It supports various blog service like wordpress, typepad, blogger etc.

As Microsoft is already know for the GUI they provide. Once again the features and GUI of the Live writer are remarkable. Editing is very easy and very useful features are there like

1. Spell Checking

2. Insertion of Pictures, Albums, Tables, Maps

3. List existing Tags from the your blog

4. Set publishing date

 

Interface is very remarkable.

Image Editing

Nice set of image editing tools/features which can save you time and can give you nice images for your blog.

You can set the layout of the images with there borders.

In Advance options you can resize the images as well you can crop. Even you can rotate, change contrast and add watermark to image

 

 

 

 

Image Crop

Image Cropping tool which can save your time. It is just i was looking for editing my images for blog. Now i can just work with in live writer rather using various software. You can rotate your image too

 

Include the map for any location which provided by Microsoft Virtual Earth

 

 

 

 

 

 

Category Selection

One can easily select the category for the post. User can even search for existing one and can create new one also.

Plug-ins

What more ? You can download hundreds of plug-ins for your live writer, Which will enhance your blog editor and solve out your various problems http://gallery.live.com/results.aspx?c=0&bt=9&pl=8&st=5

 

 

 

 

One of the plug-in “Insert Code for Windows Live Writer”. It will really help you to insert code in your blog with color, line numbering and even with line colors

Aero Shake Feature

Shaking your windows can make other windows minimize or maximize check out the video

Moonlight is alternative of Silverlight for linux & Unix users. It was the result of technical collaboration between Microsoft and Novell. You can get plugins for Firefox browsers of Moonlight from Novell. They are working on two version of Moonlight, Moonlight 1 & Moonlight 2. For more details check out this link

To download Moonlight 1.0 plugin follow this link

Microsoft is now providing free web spaces. Office Live Small Business provides a free web site and hosting, free e-mail, and other online tools for your business

What you will get

• Web Site
• Web hosting and Site Design tool (500 MB of Web site storage and easy-to-use design templates )
• Site Traffic Reports (visitor statistics, page views, top referrers, and more)
• Contact Manager (sales opportunities, contact information, and track customer interactions)
• Business Applications (Document Manager, Project Manager, and Workspaces)

Click to get started Office Live

Check the sample dashboard below.



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