On the otherside Windows Live Photo Gallery has no vendor lock-in (maintains the file metadata) and is a superb photo management application that was introduced with Vista (similar to iPhoto&#x2F;Photos&#x2F;Lightroom). It stays in low maintainance mode since its Vista days (moved to Live apps bundle) and it would have a better home in the open source community. Given that Microsoft recently open sourced the related Live Writer software, there is a small hope: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10706044" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10706044</a>