New version of the free blog editor Live Writer by Microsoft. My upgrade from the previous version was smooth and so far I have not encountered any issues. The interface is similar to the one from the recent Office versions. That is, it uses the ribbon interface which is a good thing.
There are 3 tabs available: Home, Insert, and Blog Account. All the basic editing functions are part of the Home tab including Insert Hyperlink, Picture, and Video. Other inserts such as breaks, tables, maps (offered by Bing of course!), emoticons 
, etc. can be found by selecting the Insert tab. The Blog Account tab should be self-explanatory!
In addition to the cleaner interface there are a couple of things that I liked:
- The readily available HTML styles.
- The post date to the blog can be set to a future date. (I will know how well it works soon!) UPDATE: It worked great!
Live Writer 2011 is available for Windows Vista SP2 and Windows 7. Vista also requires a platform update so it can support certain Windows 7 technologies and API’s.
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