Windows Live Writer launched

Microsoft has launched Windows Live Writer for helping you write blogs. It is still in beta and you can download Windows Live Writer here.

It installs in minutes and looks pretty much like Word. There seems to be many options in here. Apart from Live Spaces, it supports Blogger, LiveJournal,Typepad, WordPress and many others.

Live Writer supports many API’s. Among them are RSD (Really Simple Discoverability), the Metaweblog API, and the Movable Type API. More are being planned and worked on.

Being a WYSIWIG software you know how it is going to look like when you push the publish button. Its salient features include WYSIWIG authoring, Photo publishing, Map publishing, Writer SDK and compatibility with many blog API’s.

Lets hope it is what it claims to be.