I've blogged about Live Writer before. It's an awesome offline blogging app from Microsoft, and it's free! It can even read the style sheet of your blog and apply it while you write (mostly).

Anyway, looks like the first official release is out and it's definitely worth the download. They've fixed the most irritating bug in the beta (having too many pictures in an entry would cause GPF's), and so far, it appears very stable.

Even better, the new version will upgrade the beta in place. All my draft entries were preserved perfectly.

Grab it here.