Microsoft releases beta of new blog-authoring tool

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Windows Live Writer, a first beta of which Microsoft has made available for download, will allow users to post to a variety of blogging platforms, not just Microsoft's Windows Live Spaces.

Microsoft has released a first public beta of a new blog-authoring tool, Windows Live Writer, and made it available for download starting on August 13.

According to J.J. Allaire, the architect of the tool, Windows Live Writer is the evolution of Onfolio Writer, a tool developed by his former company Onfolio Inc., which Microsoft acquired in March 2006.