This new version of the suite, incorporates new icons, new features, many bugs fixed since version Beta releases and what more important… The incorporation Windows Live Language Setting with all language packs (MUI) & (LIP) for example Catalan and Euskera for Spanish version.
This program brings new features like the ability to change languages or install (automatically for the web) the additional languages.

Source: http://microsoft-journal.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!A33F7112F6C1D499!1124.entry

• English: Web – Full
• French: Web – Full
• German: Web – Full
• Dutch: Web – Full
• Portugese: Web – Full
• Spanish: Web – Full
• Japanese: Web – Full
• Chinese (Simplified): Web – Full

The public Beta of the Windows Live Writer Wave4 is coming soon!! Pierro Sierra has pre-announced the start of the public beta on the Windows Live Blog:

Tomorrow, hot on the heels of the Hotmail roll-out, the new Windows Live Essentials becomes available for public beta testing. Windows Live Essentials beta requires Windows Vista or Windows 7, and is available in English, French, Dutch, Japanese, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, or Spanish.  As soon as the beta goes live tomorrow (we’ll update this blog post when it does), you’ll be able to get it from here.

source: Announcing the new Windows Live Essentials beta!

We will update this posting as soon as the link is available. Please share your opinion about the new Windows Live Writer Wave4 by sending a trackback/ping to this posting or just post the link to our Windows Live Writer page.

Download: Windows Live Essentials beta

We aren’t sure if the final name of the Windows Live Essentials is really Windows Live Essentials 2011 or if Microsoft really plans to start the public beta of the Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 tomorrow, but we are pretty sure that the Windows Live Writer Wave4 review from LiveSide.net is real.

18 months ago the Windows Live Writer community got the last update (nobody still knows what the wave4 update was for …). Some days ago the Windows Live Writer team announced that they won’t run the Writerzone anymore and all further communications will run over their twitter Account @WLwriter. I’ve tried several times to get information from the Windows Live Writer team by sending them some replies, … still waiting.

Let’s us start talking about the Windows Live Writer Wave4, what is new? Ok the Windows Live Writer has now the fancy ribbon interface and there is no menu on the right side anymore, but these things are only changes, so what is really new?

To be honest, I’m almost tempted to say nothing. Zip. Nadda. Yes, it’s got the ribbon look, which does make it more consistent across the board with the rest of the Wave 4 suite and various other Microsoft products; yes, it has a couple of little additions, like the new Wave 4 style emoticons and maybe a couple of other little things, but really, when all is said and done, is that really all we get for a wait of over 18 months? A ribbon and some updates? Where are all the new features that are just going to pull all the new punters in? Where are all the enhancements to the developer API so that more types of plug-ins can be written? And where are the bloody drafts and recent posts?!

source: Windows Live Wave 4: Live Writer, A [Critical] Review – LiveSide.net

I’m following the Windows Live Writer since the early beginning (I think it was even the first beta1) and people always asked for two things, a spell-check like in Word and a “Find and replace” function. Maybe the integration of the Word spell-check in the Windows Live Writer isn’t easy, but adding a “Find and replace”, must be pretty easy, isn’t it? Example? Just ask Google .

For me it seems that the WLW team didn’t use any of the suggestions users have published on forums,blogs or on Microsoft connect, but maybe this version is just a new beginning like Hollywood did with Batman and we will get updates with new functions and improvements in regular cycles.

What do you think about the new Windows Live Writer Wave4? What were your expectations and what are your wishes for the next update?

Did you notice? We haven’t posted anything new here for awhile. We’ve officially stopped maintaining this blog.

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.. waiting for Wave4 .

But on cnBeta.com there is some very cool stuff, new screenshots of the Windows Live Writer Wave4. Take a look!

It is a little bit strange to have the category, tags and the publish date on the top of the post. What Do you think?

source: New Live Writer Wave 4 Screenshots Emerge – LiveSide.net

They posted a screenshot from the Windows Live Writer ribbon interface too:

Many are hopeful for some Wave 4 announcements at the Consumer Electronics Show in January and we are expecting some focus on Windows Live during the event. We’re expecting Microsoft to make a public beta of the Wave 4 bits during the first quarter of 2010.

source: Windows Live Messenger 2010 revealed

Twitter / Scott Lovegrove: I want some suggestions fo …

PicturePan2 from LiveSino created a mockup of what the Windows Live Writer could look using the ribbon interface.

source Wave 4: Live Writer To Get The Ribbon Interface?

The strange thing is that the update isn’t available by the Windows Live Writer Updater.  In fact you have to download it from the Microsoft download website.

Download details: Windows Live Writer 14.0.8089.726

Maybe the update is a good reason to reactivate the official Windows Live Writer Blog. The last posting was published in January 2009.