Windows Live Writer Beta Update

Today the Windows Live Writer Team released a beta update. The follow changes have been made to the new beta.

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

You can download the new Windows Live Writer beta here!

Microsoft has also updated Windows Live Gallery adding a section for Windows Live Writer Extensions. I just installed the Flickr Extention! Awesome stuff.