Responding to customer feedback, Microsoft has unveiled an update to the Windows Live Writer 1.0 Beta. Rebecca Levine, Program Manager, Windows Live Writer has published a blog on the Windows
Live Spaces informing that the Live Writer 1.0 beta has been updated with Windows Live Gallery. The release of Windows Live Writer and the Windows Live Writer SDK was a very exciting moment for our team. We are so pleased to see so many people not only blogging with Writer but also creating Writer Plugins. The Writer team would like to thank all of the people who have been using Writer and/or creating plugins, especially those who took time to provide us feedback. We have received some terrific input over the last month and have learned a lot from you, wrote Levine.
The Windows Live Writer 1.0 Beta update has resolved the reported issues impacting the previous variant and affecting the functionality of the application. Also, via the Writer community on Windows Live Gallery Beta, users can access an array of plug-ins but are also enabled to upload their own. At the time of this article, the Blog This for Firefox, Flickr4Writer and Blog This for Internet Explorer were the top three downloads.
The following is a summary of the changes in the Writer 1.0 (Beta) Update:
Tagging support
Support for Blogger Beta
Categories are sorted by name and support scrolling, plus improved support for reading categories from your blog
Improved startup performance
Paste is enabled for Title region and TAB/SHIFT+TAB navigation between title and body supported
Insert hyperlink added to context menu when text is selected
Title attribute in Insert Link dialog
Custom date support for Community Server
Improved keyboard shortcuts for switching views
Change spell-check shortcut key to F7
Add png to insert image dialog file type filter
More robust image posting to Live Spaces
Improved style detection for blogs
Fixed issues with pasting URLs and links
Remember last window size and position when opening a new post
Open post dialog retrieves more than 25 old posts
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