EDIT: October 18 – This has been edited to reflect the Windows 8.1 and Windows RT 8.1 official RTM/GA release. I've just installed the 8.1 Preview on a desktop. EDIT: 10/17/2013-this is also true for RTM . The Photos App has changed: No longer includes the ability to show images from Facebook, Flickr, SkyDrive <10/18/2013deleted missing networked computers issue - for information on how to include content from supported Windows computers on a home network, see http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wiki/windows8_1-pictures/add-network-folders-and-display-pictures-in-the/bf3252f8-9162-4129-8387-5367e24b5609 - note that many older versions of Windows are not supported and that there is no support for Linux based NAS devices> Does have some new editing features 3. Live Tile functionality has disappeared. Edit:6/30 http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8_1_pr-pictures/possible-fix-for-photos-app-live-time-not-showing/e0eb3bb4-3e9c-4016-aa27-4a011ccc94a3 is what a possible solution is to missing Live Tile issues. Edit: 7/04 Tiles are working, but images change only 1x per day. This needs to be a shorter period. -- Barb Windows Entertainment and Connected Home MVP My Blog - http://digitalmediaphile.com/ Barb's Connected World Blog Reader Windows 8 App - http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/barbs-connected-world-blog/02f35769-52bf-461c-b1d5-06e54a58d298 Please mark as answered if this answers your question

Why were there about ten or more messages deleted from this thread? The discussion of "the other software" and about how it was so privacy-intrusive was both interesting and informative. Did MS want the thread edited because they were criticized for also having terrible privacy issues? Did the author of the recommended software want the posts removed because we were critical about how much information it wanted from our Facebook pages? This feels really weird just to have so many messages disappear without notice. It makes me a bit uncomfy with MS.

why Facebook photo from the photo app is removed from windows 8.1...?..as that was one of the useful app....is there any other option so that I can able to use my Facebook photo easily....

I saw this app and was hopeful, but well...it's full of bugs :( It doesn't seem to want to load all of my local photos. Directories which contain 30-40 photos sometimes only display 1 image...and some photo directories don't show up at all. SkyDrive integration is pretty much zero as it simply throws me into the handicapped Metro browser. Visually, the program looks nice but I really don't think it was useability tested at all. I hope I can find an app that can replace the Photos App MS destroyed. On the flip side, I have enjoyed using File Brick app -- it at least lets me navigate quickly between SkyDrive and local. I'd definitely recommend it, but it is certainly more of a manager with good photo integration than a photo app. I've had the same issues. It's a promising attempt, but at this cost and with this many bugs, it's not a viable replacement to something that was flawlessly built-in until a couple of months ago.

I saw this app and was hopeful, but well...it's full of bugs :( It doesn't seem to want to load all of my local photos. Directories which contain 30-40 photos sometimes only display 1 image...and some photo directories don't show up at all. SkyDrive integration is pretty much zero as it simply throws me into the handicapped Metro browser. Visually, the program looks nice but I really don't think it was useability tested at all. I hope I can find an app that can replace the Photos App MS destroyed. On the flip side, I have enjoyed using File Brick app -- it at least lets me navigate quickly between SkyDrive and local. I'd definitely recommend it, but it is certainly more of a manager with good photo integration than a photo app.

Possibly, but my previous issues with SkyDrive syncing have been resolved. It's still not as good as Live Mesh was, but there we are. The PowerDVD app is the first I've seen that exhibits this issue. Whether it's Cyberlink or Microsoft, something about this app on Windows 8.1 does not account for the My Pictures being pointed at SkyDrive. I could understand it if the SkyDrive files were "dehydrated" on this machine (as vasudev refers to them), but my SkyDrive photos directory is "hydrated". I guess you should contact Cyberlink. Nothing makes up for Microsoft removing the features people loved. The Cyberlink app/solution may help some people, which is why I posted it. But I won't get in to supporting their app.

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

Barb Bowman 80,805 MVP Volunteer Moderator

EDIT: October 18 – This has been edited to reflect the Windows 8.1 and Windows RT 8.1 official RTM/GA release.

I've just installed the 8.1 Preview on a desktop. EDIT: 10/17/2013-this is also true for RTM. The Photos App has changed:

No longer includes the ability to show images from Facebook, Flickr, SkyDrive

<10/18/2013deleted missing networked computers issue - for information on how to include content from supported Windows computers on a home network, see http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wiki/windows8_1-pictures/add-network-folders-and-display-pictures-in-the/bf3252f8-9162-4129-8387-5367e24b5609 - note that many older versions of Windows are not supported and that there is no support for Linux based NAS devices>

Does have some new editing features

3. Live Tile functionality has disappeared.

Edit:6/30

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8_1_pr-pictures/possible-fix-for-photos-app-live-time-not-showing/e0eb3bb4-3e9c-4016-aa27-4a011ccc94a3 is what a possible solution is to missing Live Tile issues.

Edit: 7/04

Tiles are working, but images change only 1x per day. This needs to be a shorter period.

Barb

Windows Entertainment and Connected Home MVP

My Blog - http://digitalmediaphile.com/

Barb's Connected World Blog Reader Windows 8 App -

http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/barbs-connected-world-blog/02f35769-52bf-461c-b1d5-06e54a58d298

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2013-11-25T19:31:07+00:00

Why were there about ten or more messages deleted from this thread? The discussion of "the other software" and about how it was so privacy-intrusive was both interesting and informative.

Did MS want the thread edited because they were criticized for also having terrible privacy issues?

Did the author of the recommended software want the posts removed because we were critical about how much information it wanted from our Facebook pages?

This feels really weird just to have so many messages disappear without notice. It makes me a bit uncomfy with MS.
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2013-11-20T09:46:52+00:00

why Facebook photo from the photo app is removed from windows 8.1...?..as that was one of the useful app....is there any other option so that I can able to use my Facebook photo easily....
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2013-11-05T14:51:54+00:00

I saw this app and was hopeful, but well...it's full of bugs :(

It doesn't seem to want to load all of my local photos. Directories which contain 30-40 photos sometimes only display 1 image...and some photo directories don't show up at all. SkyDrive integration is pretty much zero as it simply throws me into the handicapped Metro browser.

Visually, the program looks nice but I really don't think it was useability tested at all.

I hope I can find an app that can replace the Photos App MS destroyed.

On the flip side, I have enjoyed using File Brick app -- it at least lets me navigate quickly between SkyDrive and local. I'd definitely recommend it, but it is certainly more of a manager with good photo integration than a photo app.

I've had the same issues. It's a promising attempt, but at this cost and with this many bugs, it's not a viable replacement to something that was flawlessly built-in until a couple of months ago.
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2013-11-05T14:24:57+00:00

I saw this app and was hopeful, but well...it's full of bugs :(

It doesn't seem to want to load all of my local photos. Directories which contain 30-40 photos sometimes only display 1 image...and some photo directories don't show up at all. SkyDrive integration is pretty much zero as it simply throws me into the handicapped Metro browser.

Visually, the program looks nice but I really don't think it was useability tested at all.

I hope I can find an app that can replace the Photos App MS destroyed.

On the flip side, I have enjoyed using File Brick app -- it at least lets me navigate quickly between SkyDrive and local. I'd definitely recommend it, but it is certainly more of a manager with good photo integration than a photo app.
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2013-11-05T10:18:03+00:00

Possibly, but my previous issues with SkyDrive syncing have been resolved. It's still not as good as Live Mesh was, but there we are. The PowerDVD app is the first I've seen that exhibits this issue. Whether it's Cyberlink or Microsoft, something about this app on Windows 8.1 does not account for the My Pictures being pointed at SkyDrive. I could understand it if the SkyDrive files were "dehydrated" on this machine (as vasudev refers to them), but my SkyDrive photos directory is "hydrated".

I guess you should contact Cyberlink. Nothing makes up for Microsoft removing the features people loved. The Cyberlink app/solution may help some people, which is why I posted it. But I won't get in to supporting their app.
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