Early reactions to the Windows Live Photo Gallery Beta 2.2 release:

• Techmeme Windows Live Photo Gallery And Flickr (ScottIsAFool-LiveSide)
• Jeff Sandquist - Microsoft Evangelist - Windows Live Photo Gallery Now Supports Flickr
• Windows Live Photo Gallery includes Flickr!  Larry Larsen  Channel 10
• It’s Official! Windows Live Photo Gallery now supports Flickr! » PALERMITI.ORG
• More Ways to Upload « Flickr Blog
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• Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to Address Web 2.0 and the Future of the Internet Steve Ballmer to p
• Windows Live Photo Gallery And Flickr - LiveSide - News blog

As Michael points out in the PIX blog posting, we've also made some important changes that will be more apparent in the final release:

• As of Beta 2.2, we do not require XP users to be running Windows Desktop Search. For right now, you'll have to install it if you don't already have WLPG, get the Beta 2.2 updated, and then remove WDS if you don't want it. For the final release you won't have to go through this cha-cha-cha.
• We ask to ensure you want us to be associated with your graphic files and be the application opening them.

A lot of clarity came about thanks to early beta users blogging their impressions and using the Microsoft Connect customer site. We had the opportunity to turn around the changes and fixes time allowed.