The Windows Live Writer team has been busy, releasing an update to Windows Live Writer beta in "New Release! Windows Live Writer 1.0 (Beta) Update with Windows Live Gallery". New features include (from the blog post):
- Tagging support
- Support for Blogger Beta
- Improvements to categories
- 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
Visit The Writer community on Windows Live Gallery to download plugins and extensions for Writer. I just pulled down the "Blog This" Extension for IE (there's also a version for Firefox) and am giving it a go.