I have been using Windows Live Writer for about a few weeks now, and I find it to be the best blog editor I have ever used.
It has a great spell checker, several different views of how my post will come out, its easy on the eyes (nice to look at), intuitive, and has a rapidly growing list of plugins.
I have used on and off Performancings FF extension, Quamana, and more than a few others. Always there was a significant issue (from my perspective).
The only problems I have found with Live Writer is that it doesn’t have enough plug ins (yet) but I am sure it will have everything imaginable over the next few months, and it doesn’t work on at Mac which is crappy because I will be purchasing my first Mac in a couple months and sadly the search for the perfect blog editor will start all over again. 
The other problem I have had is with the Insert Acronym plugin because it won’t allow me to do custom acronyms - it implies by its user interface that I can but I haven’t had the time to figure out how to do custom work so it is only 50% useful. Too bad I was really excited about that plugin.
If you want to try Live Writer I would like to suggest installing the following plug-ins:
Acronyms - see above for comments
Flickr - always a nice touch when Flickr is integrated
Events - supports Microformats, with this plugin Microformats could really catch on by making the standard much easier to apply for regular guys like me.
Table Insert - Live Writer doesn’t have built in support for table creation so its either this plug-in or manual coding.
Plug-ins others may find cool are and can be found from Live Writers plugin home page are:
Blog from FF - if you use FF2.0 Final then you need to know about this hack
Blog from IE - doesn’t yet work in IE7 which I have installed (same as above)
Currently listening - allows you to publish what you are listening too
Ink Blog - allows you to publish in Ink e.g. written text from a Tablet PC
As well they have added a feature I have never even thought, or heard about Live Clipboard.
Are you keen? You can download Windows Live Writer directly.
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Clive Walker 10.31.06 at 3:17 pm
I have used Live Writer for a while and I like the interface. However, for me as a web developer, I need it to support XHTML because that’s what my blog uses. See my review here. So, I have moved to Zoundry which does a better job for me. There’s no Mac version though.
Clive Walker 10.31.06 at 3:17 pm
I have used Live Writer for a while and I like the interface. However, for me as a web developer, I need it to support XHTML because that's what my blog uses. See my review here. So, I have moved to Zoundry which does a better job for me. There's no Mac version though.