Photos App in 8.1 loses most of its best features e.g. Facebook/Flickr support...

What you need to do is throw away this new app, take the original Windows 8 app and improve it by making an API that allows third party developers that have apps on the system to link to the Photos app. It becomes opt-in for developers, users gain greater functionality and compatibility with services they use, and Microsoft has something to offer that competitors do not.

Complete agree with this comment.

And can we please have the people tagging and location tagging (and other tags/rating) features back that were there in Windows Photo Gallery - this would be awesome if you then linked it to the People App so that you could go from a specific Person to all of the photos you have (tagged with him) across devices and services of that person!

Also can we get back, or at have the hooks for other apps to provide, to do the other useful features in Windows Live Essentials Photo Gallery, such as Panorama, PhotoFuse and Collage.

In fact, blend the old Photo App with WIndows Photo Gallery with extensibility of providers and apps plug-ins and integration with People, and you would have an awesome Photo Hub experience which would really differentiate Windows 8.x from the other platforms.

@CarmenZ \[Microsoft\]

"We take a lot of photos that end up in a lot of different places. Some are on our PCs, others end up on a photo sharing service like Flickr or Facebook, and even more are on our phones—sometimes indefinitely. How and where we store and share photos has changed and will continue to change as we take more photos, buy more devices, and share to more places with more people. What we need is one place where we can see, relive, enjoy, share, and immerse ourselves in all of them, all in one place." - Steven Sinofsky

Of all the controversial aspects of Windows 8, this is probably the only part that everyone could get behind, and you throw it away. What rubbish.

What you need to do is throw away this new app, take the original Windows 8 app and improve it by making an API that allows third party developers that have apps on the system to link to the Photos app. It becomes opt-in for developers, users gain greater functionality and compatibility with services they use, and Microsoft has something to offer that competitors do not.

Microsoft kills one of the best features in Windows 8.

Unbelievable! Who made this decision???

Why I should make this update???

Could I ask that someone with the latest leaked build of 8.1 (9741) please post here and tell us if the photo`s app is able to display photos which are stored on network shares

Thanks.

Microsoft. .. Everyone on this discussion disagrees w taking away the hub functionality of the photos app and just hubs in general in windows 8.1. I am glad you are listening to customer feedback do I suggest you listen to this feedback. The water was just getting really warm until I saw your photos app and it just got colder. Hubs is what you have that other platforms don't. In fact bring the hub to other apps like on windows phone. Like music video messaging people and others. Especially photos people and messaging"Skype". Hubs is intuitive and the awesome. Microsoft bring it back!