I don't really need Windows Live Writer - I've already bought BlogJet, quite a nice web blogging tool that works perfectly for my .Text based weblog. But I can't resist testing a new free tool either :)

I wonder how many sales BlogJet's author will lose because Writer is free and is a part of Microsoft's new Live brand so it might appeal to wide (Windows blogging) audience...

Apart from yet another UI that's almost like one of the versions of Microsoft Office and somewhat like one of default Windows XP styles (but enough different to make it slightly irritating), Writer seems to work fine.

I am mostly impressed with the Web Preview feature: it looks like Writer imported all my CSS and/or analyzed my web page and is dynamically inserting the content of the new post. OK, I'll test image posting while I'm at it - here's how a preview of this post looks like (at the right). Unfortunately, Writer supports only GIF and JPEG images but not PNG (?!?).

Actually, Writer looks and feels a lot like BlogJet and seems to have almost exact feature parity. If I had to pick a tool now, not knowing about BlogJet or wanting something for free, I guess I'd take Writer any day over all kinds of web blogging posting interfaces.