Neville Hobson gives a brief synopsis of his experience with the blogging funtionality of Microsoft (MSFT) Word 2007 Beta 2.
There are known issues concerning the post date/time and categories. Here is his experience with the new software and how it interacts with WordPress:
"I've gone through the steps to set up my WordPress blog using the Metaweblog API; got the confirmation that all is set up correctly for Word to post. Known issues - categories aren't supported and the post date/time will likely be wrong.
"Well it did work just fine. The post was successfully published. Impressive.
"The date/time was definitely incorrect, though - posted with a date of January 1, 1970 at 01:59. Changed to reflect the actual date/time. I'd certainly expect this issue to be fixed asap if Word is to be taken even halfway seriously during the beta as a blogging tool.
"Category not set either. Or rather, set to whatever is the default category in WordPress (in my case, General). So I've changed that to the categories you now see.
"I have to say, though, that this is extremely impressive. If the two known issues - date/time error and categories - can be fixed quickly, then this will be a highly credible blogging tool."
The only issue that I would want to know, since I don't have the beta yet, is whether the uploaded code is as bad as it is if you would use Word to post now. Anybody out there know how the post looks behind the scenes?
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