Okay, well the day has come… Im afraid this poor soul has swapped back to Windows, its not as bad as it seems, im not using Vista (or by its more commonly known name, ‘that useless piece of crap’). But given my heavy reliance on MS server side services, such as exchange running OS X was proving to be more of a secondary OS anyway, most my time was being spent in a VMWare Fusion Virtual Machine of Windows anyway, primarily for the use of Office 2007. Yea i know Office 2008 has been released now, but between me and you, i dont really thing Microsoft cared too much about making it as good as their native version, sorry if i spilled the beans on that little trade secret !…

But, im moving away from my main topic… A few weeks ago i posted a review of Mars Edit, an OS X blog editor which i was evaluating for use with wordpress (yea this blog is wordpress, surprised lol) and its features. Well, ill take this opportunity to say that if i was still using OS X (which i am, on my Macbook Pro) as my blogging workstation, id definatly of shelled out the cash to buy that little application… It made the process of adding new content totally seamless, it even managed to upload images and other digital content around the madness which is the unite (halls of student residence) firewall, which blocks pretty much everything other than MSN and web traffic lol !

Well, back on windows now and iv lost access to this little app of dreams, so this left me with the choice of either going back to the wonderful wordpress editing page (which loads slower than my first 66Mhz PC and looks almost as ugly) or finding somthing similar for the Windows platform, well here it is… Microsoft Windows Live Writer currently still in BETA, but very versatile… offering many of the same features as Mars Edit, obviously not quite as intuitive to use, some bits are hidden away from the user and you need to go hunting (but thats just Microsoft being Microsoft)… Iv only been using this app for a few days now, and thus far its worked fantastic for my needs. Aimed at editing Windows Live blog pages primarily, the application lends well to wordpress intergration and seems to loose no functionailty in the process… Images, Catagories, themes, all the stuff is their again at your fingertips… Would definatly reccomend it for anyone running a wordpress site and running any Windows Platform system….