Windows Live! Writer

I just downloaded Windows Live! Writer and thought I would give it a try. Recently I've been using Microsoft Office 2007 Beta to write and post my blog posts, the service was very obviously still a beta and had some rough edges. Well Windows Live! Writer is the blog posting feature from Office 2007 beta, but with far more polish, and the added bonus that it's a free download. Configuration is incredibly easy with Live! Writer, simply point it to your webpage and give it your username and password, with most of the major blog providers it'll detect the setting automatically. It even pulls in the CSS so you can see what your finished post will look like. I've gotta say I've been impressed by some of the things MS has been doing lately, but the new suite of Windows Live! apps is positioned to really give Google a run for their money.