When we posted that the commercial WSIWYG blogging application Post2Blog had gone freeware, one reader pointed out that it looked a lot like Windows Live Writer.

While Post2Blog had a number of features missing from Live Writer, (and still does), Microsoft has released a major update to Live Writer with support for:

• Live spell checking
• Table editing
• Categories, tags, and labels (depending on your platform)
• Available in 6 languages
• Support for new APIs

Existing Live Writer plugins should work with the new version, and Digital Inspiration has a nice list of useful plugins.