Comments on: Microsoft offers free photo-sharing tool

Company releases software to show off graphics and communications advances coming with Vista.

[R. U. Sirius]

Okay, so?

Microsoft is a day late and a dollar short on the photo sharing front. Google, Yahoo, Apple and others like Shutterfly have been doing this for quite some time. Oh, but let me guess, Microsoft will protect your photos by using the WMV format?

No. Doubt.

Why would i need a special 'software' program to share photos when i can just use ANY browser with flickr?

The company is seriously 2-3 years behind the rest of the world...they seem to only exist now as a gluttonous blob of money that is completely void of creativity and innovation --- their mission is to absorb smaller, creative companies and just slap a Microsoft label on them ---

are you kidding me?

So he showed Reversi in Windows 1.0 and then compared it to the new "Windows-Vista version"?!?!? And THEN had the nerve to say "That's quite a change from 'Reversi,'?!?!?!?

That's like demo'ing a wooden cart from the 16th century then showing a 2005 Dodge Viper --- "quite a change from a wooden cart, eh?"

What a mother-effer.

"That's quite a change from 'Reversi,'" Of COURSE it's a change from "Reversi" BECAUSE THAT WAS 20 YEARS AGO!!!! Technology has evolved -- not Microsoft.

What ELSE do you have, geniuses? I pray that this new "update" of Windows fails. I really, really do. The world needs a better OS and Vista ain't it.

I use a PC at home and an Apple at work... I'd be much much happier with an Apple at home.

[jean.luc.picard]

really?

And this will be available when?

I can do slides shows on my Mac for years now, and even the Mail
app that Apple bundles for free will turn emailed photos into a full-
screen slide show on the spot, just click on the lideshow button!
The Spotlight search tool will do a slide show of the images it finds,
too.

far too little too late, I agree! LOL!

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The MacAttackers all miss the point again (no surprise)

The slide show program was written to *demonstrate* the new Avalon and Indigo subsystems. It's not a serious application, it's just an example which means I'd expect it to be available in source form from MSDN.

[R. U. Sirius]

Guess again

I'm not a MacAddict. Read my post again.

Google. Yahoo. Shutterfly. And Apple. Even Adobe.

This is not new technology.