"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," writes Joe Friend on the Word blog.
"Notice that the new user interface has been scoped to include the feature you most likely will need when authoring a blog post. We've gone from seven tabs on the ribbon to just two! The Home tab has been replaced with a Blog Post tab. We've add some special commands that you will need to manage your blog service accounts and publish your posts. We even added strikethrough to the basic text group since bloggers like using it so much."
Comment: You really should look at Joe's post if you use Microsoft Office, because it shows the latest (but not final) version of the new user interface. Otherwise, it might be interesting to people who keep Word open all the time and/or actually use some word processing features (ie probably not most journalists) or have finally got fed up with the way online blogging systems frequently discard your texts instead of actually posting them. But even that will depend on Microsoft creating usable HTML from Word, and given its previous record, that's not something I'd want to bet on.
