Interesting Post By A Potential Q User …

Thanks, her-oine at Punonym … we hope you like Qumana.

And apologies, if necessary, for swiping and publishing your whole post … but we like how you have inferred that Qumana has been specifically designed for writers and bloggers.  Qumana makes it so easy to create and publish a blog post that the last-minute afterthought addition of blogging capability in Word 2007’s Beta 2 may be of only marginal relevance, at best, to many people who blog regularly.

Word to Add Blog Posting Tool

It’s been reported that Word 2007 will include a blog posting tool.

Microsoft Word 2007 will sport the last-minute addition of a blog post authoring tool when the software rolls into Beta 2 in the next week or two, the Office 2007 development team announced Friday.

The feature will be accessible from Word 2007’s File/Publish menu, and will support direct posting of blog entries in Beta 2 to Microsoft’s MSN Spaces and SharePoint 2007, Google’s Blogger.com, and Community Server, a collaboration platform Microsoft uses for its own MSDN (Microsoft Developer Network) blogs.

According to Joe Friend, a lead program manager on the Word development team, the blog post tool automatically encodes styles such as boldface into HTML, and after some setup, will auto-upload any images added to the blog.

This would be great for laptop users or even dial-up users (for offline work), but not so much for those who use more professional blog hosting platforms and scripts. I’m much more interested in Qumana, the free desktop blog editor. I have to try that out on my laptop.

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