@cidman2001: Windows Live Photo Gallery lets you do it on the desktop. It only recognizes that faces are in the picture and offers you a chance to "people tag" them.. it doesn't automatically group the photos for you.

@dmccall: I want this double-click Photo Viewer Picasa has, but I don't want Picasa for photo management at all. Windows (Live) Photo Gallery is awesome.. I wish they would find a way to tag photos automatically (using the recognition features)

@Rob Davis: Here's what I mean by objectively: Instead of thinking in the context of 'change', i.e. someone who is already used to Office and therefore recognizes that 2007 is different — think instead of a brand new user who'll be using Office for the first time. You present them with a copy of 2003 and a copy of…

Right now, top; Usually, left. I voted 'None' because it's always on autohide.

Live Image Search has been better than Google Image Search for a good while now

@B1663R: What does CoolIris have to do with filtering the images? It still returns both illustrations and photos — anything the original Google Search returns

I have a Synaptics touchpad on my XPS m1330, I just don't know how to get this new scrolling. Dell and Windows have nothing to say about it. Can anyone advise me?

@FSeven: That's what I'm looking for too. I'm not trying to rename files, I'm just trying to have correct, complete, consistent metadata. WMP11 is pretty good at letting me edit info en masse, but I have a LOT of music so I'm wondering if there's a more magical app out there.

@Rob Davis: Objectively, the ribbon is a more intuitive interface, you don't have to like it to know that. The only issue is familiarity — you know where stuff is in 2003 and you have to relearn it for 2007, while you were "content and familiar".

@eatmytag:

Giving credit where it's due, though I'll never own an iPhone, that app looks awesome

For me it means new shiny features faster, for free

It means new stuff faster, for free

@Phoshi: "WS4 is pretty awful"

Besides clicking to send stuff to FTP, does this offer any reason to not just use built-in search? I find it hard to imagine that searching and FTPing will ever be things I need to do simultaneously

@marksman7328: "This is the best program ever featured on LH"

All Microsoft's new apps seem to be using the expected Windows 7 UI, as in the bar at the top. Interesting.

I never expected to see an article on here that would sound so biased, sensationalist and fanboyish. "Microsoft Gives Up"?? Gives up on what?

@alexandr0s: I agree, I don't get the argument either. Fined for including useful apps, criticized for excluding them pre-installed. Damned if they do and damned if they don't.

Remember how they were working on a special Yahoo Messenger for Vista, outside of the main line? I even installed the beta. What became of that effort? Vista is old news now