So I finally caved into pressure and am writing this post from Windows Live Writer. After some hassle with the install on Win2K8 (thanks to @ninob for pointing me here), I set about to write my first post. I do what I normally do; open the program and hit Maximize. Clearly Windows Live Writer wasn't designed to be maximized (see screenshot), at least not at 1920x1200. And yes, I am going to be highly critical of it, at least compared to my experience using Word 2007 for writing posts.

No test would be complete without the obligatory code snippet. First results were that all the formatting were lost. Weird. Word does this out of the box. Fortunately I found the Paste from Visual Studio add-in, which gives me this:

public static string LabelFor(this HtmlHelper helper, string target, string text)
{
    return String.Format("<label for='{0}'>{1}</label>", target, text); 
}

Now to see how everything looks online...