Family Photo TV Commercial

I’m sitting here watching the Rams and Seahawks play for their life on NBC Sunday Night Football, and we’ve seen this commercial a couple of times. I wanted to point it out as I’m not sure that the commercial communicates enough details about this feature. First, yes, it’s a very real, to be able to take a part of another picture and put into another picture – as is the basis of this commercial, where a mom is trying to get the perfect family photo and having to take faces from multiple pictures. Second, this comes in our free Windows Live Essentials suite, specifically Photo Gallery, and yes it runs only on Windows. Third, Photo Gallery contains several other cool features that all of us can use – sharing, finding (and grouping using facial recognition), and simple-but-powerful photo editing. And, fourth, Windows Live Essentials 2011 includes Messenger, Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, Mail, Writer, Family Safety, and Windows Live Mesh, plus Bing Bar, Messenger Companion, Microsoft Silverlight, and Outlook Connector Pack (Microsoft Outlook Hotmail Connector and Microsoft Outlook Social Connector Provider for Windows Live Messenger).

If you want to see this commercial, it’s here on YouTube.

P.S. – for you who are paying attention to HTML5, you’ll note that YouTube has an option for viewing their pages in HTML5. Working pretty well for me and the IE9 Beta.