Windows Imaging Component 1.0 Free download

Provides WIC-enabled software
Windows Imaging Component allows applications that support the WIC framework to display, edit and access metadata of graphic file formats.

Windows Imaging Component provides full support for discovery of new and proprietary image formats. Any WIC-enabled application can take advantage of new graphic formats right after the related codecs are installed on the computer.
Windows Imaging Component contains updated codecs for various image formats such as TIFF, JPEG, GIF, PNG and BMP that have enhanced security than the older codec versions and support Windows Media Photo, a new and advanced image format.

WIC also supplies metadata readers and writers for common image metadata formats and allows applications to preserve their own metadata inside image files so they dont have to create sidecar files.