In this month's PC Magazine, Bill Machrone, VP of Technology and Senior Editor at parent Ziff Davis writes:

”Please fasten your safety belt. This column is a paean of praise to an almost unheard-of product—Microsoft Plus! Photo Story. It's one of eight applications in the Microsoft Plus! Digital Media Edition pack ($19.95), and it's worth the entire price of admission—and then some.”

Bill goes on to extoll the virtues of Plus! Photo Story noting, “Photo Story bests professional tools, because it hides all of the complexity involved in image animation, resizing, resolution, compression, and output. If Photo Story had a timeline, the application would be just about perfect... Whether you accept its defaults or push its limits, Photo Story will help you make presentations that will have 'em cheering for more.”

Thanks Bill! Since you wrote your column, we've added Video CD burning for watching your creations on most home DVD players, a better picture chooser and support for editing and saving projects (like a family history documentary). All of this is available in the free update to Plus! Photo Story 2 for existing customers.  We're busily working on the next version of Photo Story- we're always looking for suggestions.  If any of you have feature suggestions or a cool Photo Story to share, please let me know!