Another new entrant into the blog editing software market comes from Microsoft with their beta launch of Windows Live Writer.
Following beta testing over the past few months, version 2.1 of blog manager and editor ecto for Windows was released earlier this week.
Writing this with ecto for Windows 2 beta RC3, just released. All the issues I've been commenting about in the beta forum here and here seem to be fixed.
I've spent a bit of time this weekend with software and servers.
Upward movement with new beta versions of a couple of offline blog editors I'm trying out:
Fortune has a really cool series called "How I Work." They interviewed an array of business leaders and celebrities about the tools and techniques they use to manage their day.
The first post with the second beta of the forthcoming ecto for Windows version 2 offline blog editor.
For the past few weeks, I've been trying out the closed beta versions of QumanaXP, an offline blog editing tool that is available in versions for Windows and Mac platforms.
Some readers of this blog have left some great comments to my post last week about offline blog editors.
I use an offline editor to write nearly all my blog posts. This means I'm not dependent on a network connection nor the vagaries of the internet between my PC and the hosting service (TypePad for this blog), or even my own server where I have my WordPress blog.