I started using Windows Live Writer about 6 months ago as it was a surprisingly useful tool coming from the most surprising source, Microsoft. It actually worked, see. One feature that I was missing though, and made me stop using it was the fact that I could not get it to tag posts. I love tagging, well, I fell in love with tagging and I was willing to bear the awful editors WordPress provides in order to just do that, tag. So today I updated the version of Live Writer to the latest release candidate. Never mind the totally awful classic Microsoft uber uber bloatware (to download one update you end up with almost 200MB of unrelated crap) – the fail machine cannot change, can it? – and voila, I have the new Live Writer. And it still cannot tag the way WordPress does it. Its tagging is meant to correlate your posts to sites like Delicious and Technorati. Not what I wanted. Luckily I found this awesome tool that turns on a setting in Live Writer to do that. Run the downloadable program, restart Live Writer and press F2 to show an additional form, that includes tags for your own blog. Yay!
This is how it looks in the end. Yay useful. Thanks Microsoft!
