---
title: "Testing the new Windows Live Writer"
url: https://www.simonwakeman.com/blog/2007/06/01/testing-the-new-windows-live-writer/
description: "Consultant and fractional COO for scale-up businesses. I help founders, leaders and investors in scaling businesses create sustainably high performing organisations."
published: 2007-06-01T21:00:17+00:00
modified: 2026-04-11T16:25:16+00:00
author: Simon Wakeman
---
# Testing the new Windows Live Writer

## Testing the new Windows Live Writer

This is my first post using the new beta version of [Windows Live Writer](http://writer.live.com/).

![Windows Live Writer screenshot](https://www.simonwakeman.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/wlw.jpg)

I usually use the WordPress web editor to write posts, but increasingly now I am offline for periods of time and want to be able to write blog posts then.

The interface and range of functionality on this version of WLW is impressive – I used the original beta for a while, but grew frustrated with regular problems uploading to my WordPress blog.

It’ll be interesting to see how this one fares – it’s certainly a worthy competitors for the other offline editors I’ve tried such as [Ecto](http://ecto.kung-foo.tv/archives/000990.php), [Blogjet](http://www.codingrobots.com/blogjet/) and [Qumana](http://www.qumana.com).

I’m running WordPress 2.2 on PHP 5.2.2 / MySQL 5.0.24 – no problems so far with getting WLW to configure with the WordPress installation, and I guess if you’re reading this then I haven’t had the same problem as [Neville had with XML-RPC](http://www.nevillehobson.com/2007/05/31/php-522-breaks-xml-rpc-in-wordpress/).