Ahhh, the beauty of having Windows Live Writer on the mac again, I love it.
So when I bought this machine, I said I would never run Boot Camp, Parallels, or Fusion on it because it only has 2GB of ram that is not upgradeable and who can run a VM with under a 1GB ram dedicated? Well the answer is Windows 7 Starter Edition.
How did I come to that conclusion, trial and error.
We are prepping for a big event at TechEd 2011 (the announcement will be coming soon) and I needed Windows Live Writer on my Mac cause these WLW-alternative apps still suck pretty bad when comparing to WLW and they actually cost money.
So I bit the bullet, downloaded Starter edition from MSDN and install Parallels. Each installation ran perfectly with no additional help needed from me. I told Parallels to set it up Mac-like with Coherence and off it went. I then installed what I hope to be the only app I use, Windows Live Writer. Took maybe an hour of unattended install to get it all setup. Now I run Windows from Parallels when I need to blog. Yeah it has a significant startup time and does take up several GBs for one app, but man is that app worth it when it comes to blogging.
Now I will have to ability to create some GWB specific content for how to use the site and the tools we suggest via my mac without using a weird and poorly designed blog editor.