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Microsoft today announced a new photo sharing product, Microsoft Live Photos, which integrates very nicely with Microsoft’s Windows Live Photo Gallery desktop photo application, and is yet another product in the long list of Windows Live services that Microsoft introduced today.

In many respects, Live Photos clearly competes directly with Yahoo’s Flickr, though while it has a lot of Flickr’s features, its focus is more on sharing pictures with a small group of friends or family than with the whole Internet. We have been using Live Photos for about two months now, and our overall impression is extremely positive.

As one would expect, Live Photos integrates directly with Microsoft’s Photo Gallery. This integration is similar to Google’s combination of Picasa Web Albums and the Picasa desktop application. You can upload photos, manage your galleries, and keep albums in sync. Live Photos will also be directly integrated into the new Live Toolbar, which will display previews of pictures that you and your friends have shared on the service.

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