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Microsoft Goes Live with New Blog Software By Torrey Meeks August 15, 2006 1:41PM     Though Microsoft traditionally garners muted skepticism if not outright hostility from critics over new products, the new application is surprisingly effective, says Joe Wilcox, analyst for Jupiter Research. “The new tool is pretty good. It supports a bunch of different blog services,” said Wilcox.   Related Topics Microsoft Blog Latest News Google Buzz Connects Gmail Users Intel Launches Itanium 9300 Series iPhone OS, Android Gain in Q4 Nvidia Auto-Switches Notebook GPU Macworld Focuses on Mobile Apps For the blogging aficionado who spends hours tweaking his or her blog using a browser-based text editor, publishing may have just gotten easier with Microsoft 's new publishing tool. Named Live Writer, the new WYSIWYG editor is still in beta, but so far it’s been well received by initial users. Live Writer is designed to look much like Microsoft Word, so a simple highlight and a click on the desired text is all that is required to make changes. “If you’re a power blogger I think Write will be a helpful application, being able to save drafts and organize work," said Charlene Li, devices analyst for Forrester Research. Free For Now Though Microsoft traditionally garners muted skepticism if not outright hostility from critics over new products, the new application is surprisingly effective, says Joe Wilcox, analyst for Jupiter Research. “The new tool is pretty good. It supports a bunch of different blog services,” said Wilcox. In a fast changing world where many consumers depend more and more on Web-based applications, this could be seen as a bid to bring users back to traditional desktop programs, Wilcox explained. A handful of blog editing applications currently exist on the marketplace such as Six Apart, which costs between $15 and $20. Other blog software tends to be Web-based and is available free of charge for registered users of the various blog services. Microsoft Live is currently available free of charge.   Tell Us What You Think Your Comment: Also Visit: iPad Info Center Billions of Bytes Mobile Device Now Apple Info Center TopTechWire.com

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