Correction: Microsoft Office Live *Does* Do Blogs

On Monday I wrote an article about Office Live and Google Apps. In that article I said:

Neither has any blogging capability whatsoever.

I was corrected on this concerning the Microsoft offering. By whom? The Microsoft Office Live Team themselves (see comments in that article).

Microsoft Office Live does do blogs and rather easily by using Live Spaces.

This is how it’s done:

When you’re using the Web Design Tool inside the admin panel, you click inside an editable area, then click the Module button, then Live Spaces blog. After that you just type in the URL of the Spaces blog (i.e. your-username.spaces.live.com). The blog does have to be active first.

Looks like this:

After you add in your Spaces blog, just save and it’s done and live instantly.

Kudos to Microsoft for putting blogging ability into their Office Live Small Business offering. This is definitely a very cool feature and moreover easy and usable.

Much thanks to the MS team for pointing this out because I consider it essential that businesses – including small ones – should be able to blog easily. Spaces combined with Office Live Small Business takes care of that in short order.

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http://kkomp.com Sharron (kkomp)
That’s all very well if you use Windows Live Spaces exclusively; however it would be an even better experience if one could use the software directly in conjunction with a private WordPress blog on one’s own server space. I realise that this wouldn’t be directly within the interests of Microsoft’s marketing strategy inasmuch as it would give an alternative to promotion of Microsoft’s blogging service; however I use Microsoft Live Writer quite comfortably in conjunction with my WordPress blog on my private server space; so I don’t quite understand their reticence to provide the same sort of experience with this software.
Perhaps the Microsoft Office Live team would shed some light on this issue?

http://www.menga.net Rich Menga
They don’t have to. You’re talking about mixing proprietary software with an external server (big gaping security risk) using open source software (not designed to work with the system). That’s a really bad, bad idea.