Microsoft improves the organization of digital photos in their OS

When Microsoft developed Windows Vista, she thought about organizing digital photos on a computer. Now the software giant has released a beta version of the software, which should improve this element of the OS.



At InfoTrends Digital, Mike Nash (Mike Nash), Microsoft's vice president of product management at Windows, said that organizing photos in Windows XP leaves much to be desired. Among the minuses were insufficient storage, search, tagging and photo editing, as well as the lack of support for raw images, slow transfer of photos from the camera to a PC and poor color management.



Windows Vista was created taking into account the “blunders” of the previous OS, says Nash. But the new Windows Live software component (which is in public beta testing), called Windows Live Photo Gallery, bypasses the functionality of Windows Vista Photo Gallery due to features like sharpening photos, displaying a histogram, the ability to upload photos to Windows Live Spaces ( on other sites like Flickr or Picasa, photos will not work).

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You can download the beta version of Windows Live with Photo Gallery for Windows XP and Vista from the Microsoft website , however, please note that to complete the program you will need to install SQL 2005 Compact Edition. Users of Windows XP to search for color management will have to download a number of components.