Even more , on More on Windows Live Writer

My last post made Steve think I wasn’t impressed with Windows Live Writer.

I wasn’t wowed, but I am still impressed.

The first things I tend to see in any new product are the things that it doesn’t do compared to my current capability, that is what my last post was reflecting.

I am impressed with the cleanness of the WLW interface.

I am impressed with the way it deals with posts and drafts, retaining a local copy.

I am impressed by the way it properly formats my posts. It’s nice to be writing in the same colours and fonts as will appear on the blog. It’s even nicer to be writing in a screen that is the same width as the blog without having to guess where things would actually appear. For those of you looking on the web you will notice that the paragraph spacing is much batter than in my previous posts.

I am impressed that they have written a product that covers ore than just Spaces.

I am impressed that they have created a plug-in capability and SDK.

The thing that concerns me about the things I think are missing is whether I believe Microsoft have a motivation to put them in, or whether a plug-in movement will be built which will add them in. Microsoft has little motivation to put Technorati tag support in, or Flickr support, or a broad Ping Server list.

But I am still impressed.