Windows Live Writer 2009 new features: Release Candidate

We’re excited to announce the release candidate of Windows Live Essentials which includes a new version of Writer that is available for download today.

Windows Live Writer 2009 (Release Candidate)
Version 14.0.8050.1202

New Features
Here are the new features available in this version:

• “Instant photo” border treatment
• Insert multiple photos
• Insert and upload Windows Live photo albums
• Insert and publish video to YouTube
• Spell checking in: Arabic, Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, English (Australia), Estonian, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Turkish, and Ukrainian
• Server-side tagging (support coming soon to WordPress.com and BlogEngine.NET)
• Type-down filtering in the Open dialog
• Improved blog account setup
• Windows Live Spaces inline preview support
• Support for bidirectional languages
• Updated look and feel

New plug-ins
Accompanying this release are three new Writer plug-ins that will be available for download from Windows Live Gallery:

FLICKR UPLOAD
Uploads an image to your Flickr account and inserts an inline picture into your post.

DIGG THIS
Automatically adds a DiggThis badge to your blog post after you publish it from Writer.

TWITTER NOTIFY
Automatically generates a TinyURL and sends a Tweet about your blog post after you publish it from Writer.

Since this is a release candidate we’ll be using your feedback to work through any last remaining bugs before we do our final release.

Source- Windows Live Writer Blog