For the last few months I've been writing my posts in Outlook (as new mail messages) to take advantage of the Word-style formatting options and spell check.  I had heard that the final version of Windows Live Writer had been released, but I just haven't had a chance to download and take a look at it.

I downloaded and installed it this morning and it looks pretty good!  A few of the early bugs I ran into seem to have been fixed and I very easily configured it to post to my Inetium Blog (currently running Community Server).

Here are a few favorite features:

1. Setting categories (pulled from community server):
    
   
2. Configuring pictures for upload (via FTP):
    
   
3. Ability to manage multiple accounts:
   
   
4. In Windows Live Writer's spell check, SharePoint = Harpoon:
    

You can download Windows Live Writer here:

http://get.live.com/writer/overview