'tags' field embedded in metadata

> 'tags' field embedded in metadata
>
> When I first got vista I could not wait to tag my files, it's the best
> feature of the OS in my opinion. However it was important that the data
> entered stayed latched in the file, as it mostly does, but I had a
> horrible
> feelng that all my hard work might be missplaced as the all important
> 'tag'
> field was not present in the visible fields of any file under XP. which
> doesn't nessesarily mean it wasn't.
>
> So I tested the theory by tagging all fields of a .jpg and checking the
> meatdata on another computer from an internet cafe, it was XP (nobody has
> vista yet), but could not see the tag field, so until i test it on another
> vista machine I am still not 100% sure and really would like to clarify
> the
> situation:
>
> Does the 'tag' field data reside within the file or on a database in
> vista?
>
> Also I heard it was possible to get the rating system to tag inside files
> rather than the vista d/b, is this true and should Microsoft really be
> using
> anything but the metadata within a file without making it clear?!
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Samuel

>Here is an excerpt from an article on the Microsoft Photography Blog.

><quote>
>In the past, you may have used third-party image management applications
>that allowed you to add tags (or other metadata) to your photos, only to
>find out later that those tags were locked in a private database that only
>that application could read. This makes it inconvenient to share your photos
>(or back them up), since the metadata didn’t travel with the file. In
>Windows Vista, our goal is “the truth is in the file”. That means that
>metadata you apply to your photos is part of the photo, and available to any
>application that knows how to read it.
></quote>

>Microsoft Photography Blog : Metadata and the Windows Vista Photo Gallery:
>http://blogs.msdn.com/pix/archive/20...16/702780.aspx

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