Windows Live Writer Beta: Now Available for Download

We’re excited to announce that Windows Live Writer Beta is available for download today.

Here’s what you can expect to find in this beta:

Insert videos from Soapbox and YouTube
Upload videos to Soapbox and YouTube
Image cropping and tilting
Additional border styles for images (such as reflection and rounded corners)
Support for LightBox and other image previewing effects (like Slimbox, Smoothbox, and others)
Support for centering images

Spell Checking in more languages: Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Korean, Portuguese (Brazilian), Portuguese (Portugal), Serbian-Cyrillic, Serbian-Latin, Spanish, and Swedish
Auto Linking
Smart quotes/typographic characters
Word count

New toolbar makes more commands – like Font formatting - readily available

Tabs for view switching

Improved category control with search and type-down filtering

New look and feel

We can’t wait to hear what you think and look forward to hearing your feedback.

To submit feedback about the beta, please use our Windows Live Writer (Beta) Forum.
To submit feedback about the SDK, please use our Windows Live Writer Developer Forums.

The Windows Live Writer Team

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