What you’ll find in this release:

SDK Updates
This release is largely about updates to the Writer SDK, which now includes hooks for pre- and post-publish events. These updates are still experimental and these APIs are not stable--we may make changes based on your feedback that break plug-ins that use these new methods. However, we’re really excited about the new set of scenarios have been unlocked and look forward to hearing feedback from all of you Writer plug-in developers out there.

For more details about the SDK, please see the blog post on Windows Live Dev.
New Features
You’ll also get an early look at some improvements and new features we’ve been working on:

Video and Image Publishing Enhancements
  • Upload videos to Soapbox
  • Image cropping and tilting
  • Additional border styles
  • Support for LightBox and other image previewing effects (like Slimbox, Smoothbox, and others)
  • Support for centering images

Editing Enhancements
  • Auto Linking
  • Smart quotes/typographic characters
  • Word count

UI Improvements
  • Revised main toolbar
  • Tabs for view switching
  • Improved category control with search/filtering

Download: Windows Live Writer 14.0 | 4.64 MB


There are 7 additional comments
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(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by SlimShady on 05 Jun 2008 - 11:26
14+ versions in less than 5 years?
Quote this comment #1.1 Posted by vetneufuse on 08 Jun 2008 - 15:35
(SlimShady said @ #1)
14+ versions in less than 5 years?

And your point is? IBM has apps that are on version 110.x.x in just 10 years... yes version one hundred ten...
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #2 Posted by Darrian on 05 Jun 2008 - 22:26
Possibly the best app Microsoft has ever written. Great update.
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #3 Posted by :: Lyon :: on 06 Jun 2008 - 03:01
What's wrong with just using WordPress' admin to write posts? (assuming you are using WordPress)
Quote this comment #3.1 Posted by th3rEsa on 06 Jun 2008 - 12:18
Indeed. WP 2.5 introduced a very good ACP which is able to match with the Writer.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #4 Posted by Darrian on 06 Jun 2008 - 05:45
I am, but it's so much easier to just type **** and click a button than it is to login to my site, type, update it, and wait a variable amount of time between steps depending on net congestion. With Live Writer I can also save stuff that maybe I'm not finished with and get back to it later without losing what I've written or posting it prematurely. I also love the UI. If Wordpad looked like Live Writer, had tabs and had a few more simple features like spelling/grammar check (or was extensible like Firefox ) I wouldn't even need to install Word!
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #5 Posted by madkingsoup on 06 Jun 2008 - 08:50
What happened to version 13? Superstition?
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