Comments on: The future of Windows Photo Gallery

By: none

none — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:01:24 +0000

It’s a piece of shit. It needlessly opens up new copies of itself every time you open a picture instead of opening that pic up in the same frame superseding the previous. There’s no option to do this anywhere I or many others can tell. Typical MS crap, give something, take something away.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:47:18 +0000

also our camera works fine with vista. this is for pictures sent from other people and their cameras. sent the email file from our computer to another vista user and they could open with their photo gallery. they sent it back to me and i could not get it to work still.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:26:28 +0000

what does RAW mean?

By: tino

tino — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:13:19 +0000

@Brian: Sounds like you need drivers for RAW photo support. Keep trying to open them with Photo Gallery, it may show you an update dialog. If not: search for a RAW driver for your camera on the website from the camera manufacturer.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:17:35 +0000

bought new computer with Vista 64bit home premium edition and now receiving message of “Photo Gallery can’t open this picture or vidie. Because I don’t have the lastest Window Photo Gallery updates.” when trying to open up and save pictures that were sent through email. The pictures aren’t the low res they are high res. Will not open or save then open on the computer but for some reason can see them in the body of the email. Can any one please help me with this, spent the good part of a day and hace gotten no where. Thank you.

By: CHarles Hallam

CHarles Hallam — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:29:45 +0000

I bought a new computer with Vista (GAG!!!!!!!!!!!!) I went to download some pics from my camera and now all I get is “Photo Gallery can’t open this picture or vidia. Because I don’t have the lastest Window Photo Gallery updates.” I have searched high and low on the net to get this “supposed” update and cannot find it any where. Would one of you technos out there please come to the rescue and tell me what to do here,so I can download my pictures? Please email me direct at pigstye13@aol.com. Thanks

By: Renn

Renn — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:36:22 +0000

iPhoto ‘08 already beat Photo Gallery.

By: peacho

peacho — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:28:49 +0000

Let’s see. I’ll try to catch-all here:

@tino: In case you haven’t noticed recently, the Live team has changed their naming scheme to make things slightly easier. Now it is Windows Live Mail as the desktop product for Windows Live Hotmail, which is better than Windows Live Mail Desktop beta. And there’d be no reason to call it Windows Live Photo Gallery Desktop, as there’s no online product under the same name to differentiate it from.

@Michael: I wish there was a stability update (past version 2.1) for WMM XP SP2, as it does happen to crash frequently. And while it isn’t nearly as capable as iMovie (especially iMovie 06), it’s still a pretty good product. It could use some more, but it’s decent.

@macosx: That’s a good suggestion.

By: Flikr, Windows Live Photo Gallery is goodness : DPE Australia

Flikr, Windows Live Photo Gallery is goodness : DPE Australia — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:28:26 +0000

[...] The internal buzz in the leadup to announce even got Jeff Sandquist hyped! And Long Zheng, an excellent photographer also loves it. [...]

By: macosx

macosx — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 07:03:10 +0000

MS should realize how people are pleased when they bother to update the apps in Vista with more powerful ones. In their battle on the enterprise front, MS seem to have forgotten the smaller but useful desktop apps which matter very much to average users. In some aspects, KDE and GNOME also have some really useful apps/utilities/accessories which Windows lacks. MS should form full time development teams for such desktop apps.

I also want Windows Live Movie/DVD/Media Maker, Windows Live WordPad (based on WPF’s rich typography model) and whatever-happened-to-Microsoft-codenamed-Monaco. That would complete the photos, music, videos consumer lifestyle vision.