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Microsoft drops Digital Image Suite

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Jun 16, 20071 min

Microsoft Corp. has discontinued a line of digital photo software, saying that the functions can now be found in Windows Vista and other Microsoft software.

Copies of Digital Image Suite will be available while supplies last and existing customers will be supported through April 30, 2010 or three years from purchase date, whichever comes first, Microsoft said on its Digital Image Suite Web page . Microsoft posted the note on May 10.

The software is also still available on Amazon.com.

Digital Image Suite helps users organize their digital photos in files and arrange them in galleries and slide shows. It also includes tools to improve images by doing things such as correcting exposure and fixing red eye.

When Microsoft launched Vista, it often highlighted the digital image features included in the operating system. The Digital Image Suite Web page now points visitors to Windows Vista page describing photo management features in Vista, including editing and organizational capabilities.

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Nancy Gohring is a freelance journalist who started writing about mobile phones just in time to cover the transition to digital. She's written about PCs from Hanover, cellular networks from Singapore, wireless standards from Cyprus, cloud computing from Seattle and just about any technology subject you can think of from Las Vegas. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Computerworld, Wired, the Seattle Times and other well-respected publications.

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