Like I said in a previous post I recently ditched gmail (good timing) leading me to find hotmail which comes with a suit of other kool services, including "Writer". Writer is blog post composer (for lack of a better term). When first launched it asks you if you have a blog or if you want to start a new one (threw its own blogging service), I said I already had one, then simply put in my blog's url, it saw I was using blogger, configured it's self appropriate and simply prompted me for my user id/password. That was it. I have composed my last few posts simply and easily with it. It beats using the blogger web composer because:
1. I can compose offline.
2. Better spell check.
3. More formatting options.
4. Kool plug-ins that make simple tasks like embedding images, tables and maps easier. There is even a gallery of fun easy to include plug-ins. 5. Hyper linking is much easier.
This free tool is definitely worth trying out, it integrates easily and fully, and adds a lot of functionality. I will soon post on the other live services.
I know that this is not a new update but I wanted to give my take on it after using it for a couple weeks. The changes are very small, there is a star button next to the "go" button that allows you to easily bookmark web sites which I have found very handy. The download manager is updated, sadly they took off the remove button so now you have to right click > remove in order to clear a download. I have noticed some sites render faster. However my igoogle page does not render like it should. The beta is very stable and I would recommend any interested power users give it a try. The major update in firefox 3 is that it will look like an native app in what ever major os it is running on (this is not in the beta) so in vista it will look like a vista app, and on a mac it will look like a mac. 
