Just had a quick chance to see how the windows live writer works. When I publish and if it works perfectly then I am very much pleased by the work done by the Microsoft Guys on this regard.
Good initiative on creating this Live Writer by M$. It is fairly simple to configure as well for the novice users. The options also very straight forward and clear. It has got options of adding Videos as well to MSN Soap Box and Youtube. This is absolutely cool feature.
Like a regular XHTML editor, it works comfortably. It was really a feel at home experience using Microsoft Word. It also got a spell checker to check the blog which is infact super good.