Windows Live Writer (beta)

Well, readers, I know it's been a long time - most of our posting is done in the forum now.  But I thought I'd give this thing a try.  It's the latest in a series of freebies from Microsoft for Web 2.0 use, the Live series of products.

So far, I must say I'm impressed.  It actually downloaded the template for my blog, got all the support files (even though it's blogger and NOT MSN Spaces!) and set me up in a box that looks just like, has the same fonts, styles, and colors as, and lets me type in the style of, our blog!

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It also has a full range of other goodies, for editing, such as:

Access to all of the blog template's styles

Ability to use all the standard web font styles, i.e. bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, colors, etc.  

it allows hyperlinks, images,    maps,

 etc.