Microsoft Live Writer blogging tool endorsement

Microsoft Live Writer blogging tool endorsementHaving used the Live Writer tool for the last few days, I can definitely endorse it, which marks a pause in my current behavior of replacing Microsoft software with free and open source software as well as non-Microsoft software. I am still a Windows d00d, but that may be more due to my previous incarnation as a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, specializing in Windows NT/2000/XP, Exchange Server, SQL Server, and IIS. I still run WinXP, but have since outsourced email to Gmail, SQL Server to MySQL, and IIS to Apache (1.3.37)+ Php/PERL/Ruby/Python.

The first to go was IIS, since it tended to “break” at odd intervals, especially security-wise. SQL Server went fairly soon after that, as MySQL gained more and more in popularity and robustness.

It took quite a while to cut over to Gmail. If you happen to be able to run email servers better than anyone else out there, including tweaking your own Bayesian spam filters and antivirus tools, it simply doesn’t pay to outsource something as important as email to anyone else. Last November (2005) I finally cut over to Gmail completely, after 10 years of using (and supporting) Microsoft Outlook, from the initial release in Windows 95.

Windows is still the most productive enduser operating system platform for me, since I can basically make it do what I need it too, and the support for applications is outstanding. My server OS is Linux (2.6.18), over on the wonderfully effective Site5. However, operating systems are becoming less and less important, as software is targeting multiple platforms, and the growth in Linux and MacOS popularity has made a single platform less strategically viable.

In any case, I do recommend the freely downloadable Microsoft Live Writer blogging tool. It beats the competition in terms of ease of use and functionality (with the exception of Windows only). One little Microsoft gotcha… In the included spellcheck, “blogging” is not included… doh!

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December 30, 2006 • Posted in: Applications

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