While I am no longer working on Windows Live Writer I still talk with that team and today we announced that there is an update to the Windows Live Essentials suite — http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/windowsexperience/archive/2012/03/20/update-for-windows-live-essentials-2011-now-available.aspx.
When talking with the Writer team they said they just made QFE level bug fixes and did not add new features to the product. As always I would recommend updating as things should be more stable than what you have today. You can get the new version from http://get.live.com
As an aside working on the Photo Gallery team we did make some improvements when working with web services in that users of flickr, Facebook, or Geo-tagging will enjoy and that should be reason enough to update your build. 
Thanks Aaron. Just a pity that we Windows Live MVP’s weren’t informed of the updates. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that Live Writer is currently being updated to a stand alone METRO app as I type this.
Comment by Technogran — March 20, 2012 @ 10:37 PM
It’s nice to hear there’s still a team – it seems like the Microsoft side of the Live Writer community has gone dark, which in Microsoft land is usually the first indicator that the company has lost interest in a product.
Will the team be doing anything to encourage add-in writers to update their plugins? More and more of them are starting to have issues, and the gallery is slowing down (only four have been added/updated this year).
Comment by Philo Janus — April 21, 2012 @ 4:39 AM
I am not part of the direct team anymore but my understanding is that submissions to http://plugins.live.com are evaluated and approved within days. If you write a plug-in it was be available to all of the users. You do not even have to host it yourself. This seems like a great deal for plug-in authors.
Comment by Aaron Bregel — August 7, 2012 @ 10:36 PM