Photo tools, Microsoft and Metadata

A useful list of Microsoft photo tool is click here

However it may be useful to point out a subtlety that they do not all work together well with regard to Metadata - a small but crucial part of photo labelling for many. In Windows 7 if you create keywords in Pro Photos Tools they show as tags when viewed in Live Photo Gallery. However if you create tags in Live Photo Gallery they do NOT show up in Pro Photo tools; more to the point if you add a Keyword in Pro Photo tools it OVERWRITES the tags as displayed in Live Photo Gallery and when viewed in Photo Gallery they have gone and replaced with what was inserted in Tools rather than having it appended..

Not sure how Photoshop Essential interacts as do not have it but this fundamental problem between two Microsoft products is disappointing. Metadata seems the Cinderella of photo editing packages.