Tech Shakedown #6: Could Kodak site's Vista incomp...

Right now, it's safe to say that, for some unknown reason, the Internet-Explorer-based batch photo upload feature of Kodak's online photo gallery is incompatible with Microsoft's Windows Vista (uploading photos one at a time works fine). It's a killer problem because of how much time can be saved by uploading pictures in batches. It's also a killer problem because, if you've been using Kodak's online photo gallery (formerly ophoto.com) for a long time and have a lot of pictures up there, it's not like you can easily switch to another service (lock-in is just bigger problem with using online photo services). Originally, in working with the folks at Kodak, I thought I this incompatibility was restricted to standard users of Vista (and that, so long as you were logged into Vista an administrative user, Kodak's Web site worked swimmingly). But as it turns out, despite a 15-step workaround that was e-mailed to me by a Kodak spokesperson, even being logged in to Vista as an administrator is problematic (although less so than if you're logged in as a standard user). In this Tech Shakedown video, you can see how, when attempting to use the plug-in as Vista standard user, it simply doesn't work.