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    September 17

    Windows Live Writer Beta: Now Available for Download

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

     
    Windows Live Writer Beta (14.0.5025.904)

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

    Image and video publishing enhancements

    • 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

    Blog authoring enhancements

    • 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

    Experience improvements

  • 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

    Send Feedback

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

    Learn More

    Visit the Windows Live home page and the Windows Live blog.  You can also read what Chris Jones has to say about building Windows Live.

    Enjoy!
    The Windows Live Writer Team

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