On Wednesday Microsoft released an update to it’s rather cool blogging tool - Windows Live Writer.  Thanks to Frank’s post (and Paul’s IM while I was at the GDD) for letting me know.

They’ve fixed the problem where trying to hilight something in the post header caused either the duplication of the header or throwing errors.  They’ve also made it easier to add title and rel information to a link.   There’s still no way to edit the link template used for images (eg: when you’re linking to a larger version of an image from a thumbnail)

The original three things I wrote about back in March- Image Quality, Dictionary Support, and Integrated Proxy support still aren’t fixed, which is disappointing.

The most noticeable change is the inline spell-checking a-la Word 97. However because live writer uses a built-in dictionary (US-English), and has no way of changing the dictionary - it’s a pain in the backside any time I try and write UK-English words like ‘organise’ and  ’colour’.

Overall - it’s a welcome update to an aging beta.  It’s interesting that there’s still no comparable application for the Windows platform (that I’ve seen).