Microsoft® Digital Image Suite 9???

[Mattman]

Has anyone here used this product? Opinions? I'm looking for a good (but also relatively easy to use) all in one product for organizing, editing, sharing and printing photos. I thought that the Photoshop Album/Elements bundle might be the one, but I have read reviews that say the tagging feature in PS Album isn't all its cracked up to be. The Microsoft product's photo album feature looks better, but I have also seen negative reviews on it. I'm tired of searching. Can anyone help me with this decision. I'm not a professional, but do want powerful (yet simple) features for organizing and editing photos. Is there such a product out there? If you have not seen this Microsoft product yet, check it out at the following link.
http://www.microsoft.com/insider/live/default.aspx?page=photo

Thanks for any help.

[dnadalin]

I have been gravitating to it for most common image editing tasks like leveling, sharpening, red eye reduction or cropping. It really does simplify most common tasks. I like cropping with it as I can set it to crop a 5x7, or 4x8 and it constrains the selection rectangle so it is locked at the correct proportion. It also shows a rules of thirds grid which help get the composition just right.
In addition I can use Photoshop plugins with it.

However, if I want to do something really complex or use PS Actions then it's back to Photoshop.

The library is nice, tagging is pretty easy.
Nice archive feature lets me archive a bunch of pictures to CD-R to make disk space, but leaves the thumbnails in the library. If I need something that has been moved off to CD, click the Thumbnail and it tells me which CD to go get.