Windows Live Writer 2009: Release Candidate
We’re excited to announce the release candidate of Windows Live Essentials which includes a new version of Writer that is available for download today.
Windows Live Writer is a desktop application that makes it easy to publish rich content to your blog.
Publish to most major blog services
Including Windows Live Spaces, SharePoint, Wordpress, Blogger and many others. Don't have a blog yet? Writer will help you set one up!
Create a compelling blog easily
Insert photos and videos, maps, tags and lots of other cool content, all in a snap. Powerful editing features include tables, spell checker, and quick hyperlinks.
Preview before you post
Writer shows you what your blog entry will look like before you post it, using your blog's templates and formatting.
Compose your entries offline
Publish them later, when you get back online.
Windows Live Writer 2009 (Release Candidate)
New Features
Here are the new features available in this version:
- “Instant photo” border treatment
- Insert multiple photos
- Insert and upload Windows Live photo albums
- Insert and publish video to YouTube
- Spell checking in: Arabic, Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, English (Australia), Estonian, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Turkish, and Ukrainian
- Server-side tagging (support coming soon to WordPress.com and BlogEngine.NET)
- Type-down filtering in the Open dialog
- Improved blog account setup
- Windows Live Spaces inline preview support
- Support for bidirectional languages
- Updated look and feel
New plug-ins
Accompanying this release are three new Writer plug-ins that will be available for download from Windows Live Gallery:
FLICKR UPLOAD
Uploads an image to your Flickr account and inserts an inline picture into your post.
DIGG THIS
Automatically adds a DiggThis badge to your blog post after you publish it from Writer.
TWITTER NOTIFY
Automatically generates a TinyURL and sends a Tweet about your blog post after you publish it from Writer.
Since this is a release candidate we’ll be using your feedback to work through any last remaining bugs before we do our final release.
As always, we can’t wait to hear what you think.
*taken from live.com
