Blogging implemented to Word 2007
Joe Friend, the lead program manager for Microsoft Word, wrote in his blog about a new built-in blogging support on the next Microsoft Word 2007. The new feature will allow you to post a blog entry directly from Microsoft Word.
The advantage of using Microsoft Word to author your blog entry is you can use the built-in spell-checking and grammar tools, features which are not available if you write your entry from your web-based editor.
Word 2007 will support current blogging services such as Blogger, MSN Spaces, SharePoint 2007, and Community Server. You can also setup a custom account with services that support the MetaWeblog API or the Atom API.
Another good news for people who care about webstandards, Word 2007 will produce good HTML, which is a semantically correct markup.
This feature still won’t convince me to spend hundreds of dollars to upgrade to Office 2007. License for ecto, a desktop blogging client which also featured a spell-checker is only $17.95. Ecto is available on both Mac and Windows.