The blogosphere is hopping about Windows Live Writer and here’s my take on it… wait a few releases before giving it a serious shot.

After playing with it for about an hour, I’d have to say it does an adequate job for blogs that use standard templates and bloggers with simple needs. However, it does a horrible job when you have multiple CSS layers or three column layouts. It’s a good first attempt to be a one-size-fits-all blog editor, but it doesn’t replace the custom editor for WordPress or Moveable Type. In fact, it’s not even close to being as good a the Performancing editor which is integrated into the browser (which, when combined with Flock is all you need).

Having a seperate program to run for editing my blog just doesn’t make sense to me. However, as is almost always the case, Microsoft will continue to refine the program and make it more friendly and universal, and in a few releases have a kick-ass blog editor.