Word 2007 as your new Blogger Posting App?

Joe Friend: Microsoft Office Word - Blogging from Word 2007

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Well no more. We’ve been working late into the nights and very late into our development schedule for Word 2007 and we have a special goody for all you bloggers in Beta 2 of Office 2007. That’s right blog post authoring from Word. This is a very late breaking feature and is definitely beta software. That said, I hope that everyone is pleasantly surprised with where we are going with this feature.
 
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In Beta 2 we have basic FTP support. We hope to add support for metaweblog API picture handling, SharePoint picture libraries, and one or two others. While we have a limited ability to add many more providers to this late breaking feature, the feature is extensible and other providers can insure that their systems work with Word even after Office 2007 ships.
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This is pretty standard stuff if you’ve ever used one of the many blog post authoring applications. In Beta 2 we support MSN Spaces, SharePoint 2007 (of course), Blogger, and Community Server (which is used for blogs.msdn.com). You can also set up a custom account with services that support the metaweblog API or the ATOM API..."

NICE.

This with the Word’s extensibility and programmability, I can think of tons of cool ways to tweak it to make Word an uber-posting client.

But let’s wait and see it in action before we sound the death nel for the Windows blog client market...

(via Sandeep Singh Rawat - Word 2007 includes blogging support.)