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.

* To submit feedback about the beta, please use our Windows Live Writer (Beta) Forum.
* To submit feedback about the SDK, please use our Windows Live Writer Developer Forums.