Windows Live Writer has no alternative, it is the best blogging client on desktop! It supports all leading blogging platforms (except Tumblr) and advanced formatting features.
The official plug-in gallery for Live Writer hosts many plug-ins to customize your experience. For Firefox users, there is a Blog This for Firefox plug-in which enables users to blog quickly from Firefox. It adds a button on Firefox’s navigation toolbar, and starts a new draft in Live Writer prepopulated with selected snippets from the current web page.
This Firefox add-on has been developed by Microsoft, and updated version (supports Firefox 3.6) can be installed from here. You can explore more Live Writer plug-ins here.
Also see: Firefox Add-on for Microsoft OneNote
Really?! No alternative?
Are you excited, or just arrogant?
what about…Zoundry Raven…
http://www.zoundryraven.com/download.html
Zoundry Raven is another free open source offline blogging tool/editor; it’s WYSIWYG, and it has the ability to query your blog, download all your posts [including images, tags and links] and store them locally.
Windows Live Writer is a fantastic offline blogging tool with a WYSIWYG editor. It interfaces with just about any blog service [Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, WordPress, etc.] If you’re a blogger you’ll find this tool incredibly helpful- and it’s refreshingly free from Microsoft.
But it’s not the only option… there are alternatives.
Until next time,
Larry Henry Jr.
@Larry: thanks for suggesting Raven. :)