Microsoft just released Windows Live Photo Gallery Beta 2, which allows you to upload your photos to Yahoo!-owned Flickr Photo Sharing service.
You can select one or more photos and upload it to Flickr from Publish > More Services > Publish on Flickr. Just like any other Flickr tool, you need to authorize Windows Live Gallery before you can upload any photos to Flickr. Assuming that you already have Windows Live Photo Gallery Beta 1, you can get the new version by running Windows Update on your computer. In the list of available updates, you must see a “Critical Update for Windows Live Photo Gallery (KB943550)”.
Microsoft certainly took the step in the right direction by helping users upload their photos to other photo sharing services. Honestly, I’m a great Flickr fan, but I’ve seen a lot of people who use other services like Picasa Web Albums to deal with or share their photos.
Google must really learn from Microsoft here. I love using Google’s Picasa Photo Management Tool, but at the same time I love using Flickr to share my photos. And Picasa doesn’t let me to upload my photos to any other service, except Picasa Web Album.
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