This is another installment in our look at Windows blogging clients for Movable Type. This time around we’ll be looking at PowerBlog, an open source blogging application.
PowerBlog’s claims to fame are its extensibility and Outlook-style browsing interface. Since PowerBlog is free software, it would make an excellent choice if it meets my criteria well.
I got PowerBlog installed and began to configure it. After multiple crashes and blue-screens, I decided to see if there was some online help I could utilize to sort out my problems. It was then I discovered the notice on SourceForge indicating that PowerBlog is now defunct.
According to the author, xiaoth, “PowerBlog is completely dead, it won’t run and certainly will not compile on any modern system due to incompatibilities with .NET Framework 2.0 and Internet Explorer 6.0/7.0/8.0. [snip] PowerBlog isn’t just dead in functionality, it became outdated.”
So I guess this review will end here.
