This is my first post using Windows Live Writer. So far it looks pretty cool. I just got finished looking at the html and did not find any word style bloat. I will probably be comparing this with w.bloggar over the next couple of days.
The first problem that I found was when I modified this post online and then went back to WLW to modify it again, it did not use the latest version of the post even when I asked to. It seems to only want to use the local version. It retrieved other non WLW posts from the blog okay.