Vista - Painful to resize inline images to reasonable size

When an inline image is inserted (Insert->Inline image),
WLM 2009 inserts it full-size, which in the case of images
from modern digital cameras means it is probably
thousands of pixels wide. It is then difficult and
tedious to resize the huge image to a reasonable size
(eg., 800 px wide) using the corner scroll handles (try it).

Microsoft, why not place the image initially sized to 90%
of the current bounds of the user's composition window?
If the user wants it to be bigger, it'd then be very easy to
drag it larger.

(Encoding would not be affected, as the final encoding
seems to be done, should be done, from the full-size
image in any case.)

As it is now, the inserted images are so large that I
wonder if a new user would even figure out how to
resize it down.

Mozilla's Thunderbird has had better Inline Image
functionality for years -- why not get some ideas
from them? Thunderbird 2 or Thunderbird 3 (beta).
Put a less-geeky UI on their functionality and
you'd be heroes and WLM would be more popular.

If you're trying to promote Add Photos by crippling
Inline images, I don't think having a good
Insert->Inline image would hurt Add Photos -- the
functions are different, they don't compete.

Initial size is reasonable and resizing images works ok for me with WLM
2008; is this a new problem with WLM 2009?

"Baffin" <Baffin@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:7215920A-80E3-4F19-A6CF-C79C71D3C935@xxxxxx

> Initial size is reasonable and resizing images works ok for me with WLMThanks for testing it with the previous WLM version.

On my system, WLM 2009 definitely is inserting inline images at
full size -- which are then difficult to size down to a reasonable
size, using the resize handles on the image.

Rather than a change in design intent (unlikely),
I'm wondering if it might be a problem with IE (perhaps WLM
uses IE or some other system component). I'm using IE7
(7.0.6001.18000) on Vista Home Prem, all up to date.

Maybe MS is having problems with the transition to IE8.

Is anyone else seeing Insert->Inline images appearing in
the insert at full size, in WLM 2009?