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

Please fix the pictures app so that I can look at any folder that contains pictures, like my SkyDrive Pictures folder; maybe even add a feature that will allow you to add folders to the app. In its current state, the app is pretty much useless.

Thanks for the feedback, everybody. In Windows 8, we wanted to provide a way for folks to view their photos on other services knowing there would be few (if any) apps in the store at launch that would do so. Now there are many apps in the store that offer ways to view photos on other services and soon there will even be a Facebook app from Facebook. We’re confident Facebook will offer great ways to view and engage socially with photos on Facebook. We welcome Flickr to do the same. In addition, the People app still offers the ability to socially engage with your friends and even your own photos. Most people have photographs scattered over all manner of services and devices. Please tell me how in Microsoft's wisdom, by forcing people to find their photos on different apps, is this more intuitive, more convenient and just more sensible than having a central, one-stop place to access all your photos??? Or are we missing something here? Is it a case of appeasing Facebook over your users? I don't buy your explanation. It's actually quite disingenuous; Windows Phone has a similar Photos app/hub with the same functionality. I don't recall Microsoft removing this integration from their phone OS. Well, they did remove functionality back then as well. Win the 7.5 mango update I lost the ability to see skydrive photos that others had shared with me. Ironic, they kept Facebook but dropped skydrive. Effing crazy.

Thanks for the feedback, everybody. In Windows 8, we wanted to provide a way for folks to view their photos on other services knowing there would be few (if any) apps in the store at launch that would do so. Now there are many apps in the store that offer ways to view photos on other services and soon there will even be a Facebook app from Facebook. We’re confident Facebook will offer great ways to view and engage socially with photos on Facebook. We welcome Flickr to do the same. In addition, the People app still offers the ability to socially engage with your friends and even your own photos. I agree with all of the other replies to this appalling idiotic statement. I cannot believe that Microsoft would go to all of the effort to remove useful features from an App. I spent a lot of money on a Surface Pro 128GB, and really don't want it becoming far less usable when 8.1 is released. To expect their customers to download multiple apps to view photographs is insane. Even worse that you cannot easily view your own networked photographs. I have too many to put onto my Surface Pro, and would like to be able view all of them, from all major sources, in a single integrated app. What is Microsoft up to these days, this along with the ending of the TechNet subscription service (long time subscriber) makes me look even harder at switch away from Microsoft to Apple.

Nice app!! Thanks for recommendation!!

You are really blowing it here. The hub-like integration here was a key selling point for me. I don't WANT to have to launch a billion different apps to send / see photos in the various places I have and put them. Flickr, facebook, skydrive, those were a big three, and the existing app should have had share-out capabilities to those services (the 3rd party ones don't work well and are mFugly). Do not make the mistake of forcing users into the multiple-app world of iOS and android. That's a step back we don't want to take. As others have pointed out, your logic is flawed (and, my guess, complete BS) in claiming that outside apps have taken up the slack so integration isn't necessary. There are a dozen or more basic photo editors out there offering the same junk filters and presets. There was zero need for your teams to spend time on that. Integration plus basic metadata editing (tagging, face-tagging, captioning) are the holes in the current photo app ecosystem. You had the first of those well in hand. Now you've blown it. If you want to know why reviewers keep ridiculing windows 8, it's because the apps your producing for it have lousier functionality than the standard apps of 5 years ago. Seriously bad move.

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

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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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2013-07-18T15:25:24+00:00

Please fix the pictures app so that I can look at any folder that contains pictures, like my SkyDrive Pictures folder; maybe even add a feature that will allow you to add folders to the app. In its current state, the app is pretty much useless.
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2013-07-18T09:41:33+00:00

Thanks for the feedback, everybody. In Windows 8, we wanted to provide a way for folks to view their photos on other services knowing there would be few (if any) apps in the store at launch that would do so. Now there are many apps in the store that offer ways to view photos on other services and soon there will even be a Facebook app from Facebook. We’re confident Facebook will offer great ways to view and engage socially with photos on Facebook. We welcome Flickr to do the same. In addition, the People app still offers the ability to socially engage with your friends and even your own photos.

Most people have photographs scattered over all manner of services and devices.

Please tell me how in Microsoft's wisdom, by forcing people to find their photos on different apps, is this more intuitive, more convenient and just more sensible than having a central, one-stop place to access all your photos???

Or are we missing something here? Is it a case of appeasing Facebook over your users?

I don't buy your explanation. It's actually quite disingenuous; Windows Phone has a similar Photos app/hub with the same functionality. I don't recall Microsoft removing this integration from their phone OS.

Well, they did remove functionality back then as well. Win the 7.5 mango update I lost the ability to see skydrive photos that others had shared with me. Ironic, they kept Facebook but dropped skydrive. Effing crazy.
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2013-07-17T10:48:25+00:00

Thanks for the feedback, everybody. In Windows 8, we wanted to provide a way for folks to view their photos on other services knowing there would be few (if any) apps in the store at launch that would do so. Now there are many apps in the store that offer ways to view photos on other services and soon there will even be a Facebook app from Facebook. We’re confident Facebook will offer great ways to view and engage socially with photos on Facebook. We welcome Flickr to do the same. In addition, the People app still offers the ability to socially engage with your friends and even your own photos.

I agree with all of the other replies to this appalling idiotic statement.

I cannot believe that Microsoft would go to all of the effort to remove useful features from an App. I spent a lot of money on a Surface Pro 128GB, and really don't want it becoming far less usable when 8.1 is released.

To expect their customers to download multiple apps to view photographs is insane. Even worse that you cannot easily view your own networked photographs. I have too many to put onto my Surface Pro, and would like to be able view all of them, from all major sources, in a single integrated app.

What is Microsoft up to these days, this along with the ending of the TechNet subscription service (long time subscriber) makes me look even harder at switch away from Microsoft to Apple.
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2013-07-17T05:15:19+00:00

Nice app!! Thanks for recommendation!!
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2013-07-17T01:19:00+00:00

You are really blowing it here. The hub-like integration here was a key selling point for me. I don't WANT to have to launch a billion different apps to send / see photos in the various places I have and put them. Flickr, facebook, skydrive, those were a big three, and the existing app should have had share-out capabilities to those services (the 3rd party ones don't work well and are mFugly).

Do not make the mistake of forcing users into the multiple-app world of iOS and android. That's a step back we don't want to take.

As others have pointed out, your logic is flawed (and, my guess, complete BS) in claiming that outside apps have taken up the slack so integration isn't necessary. There are a dozen or more basic photo editors out there offering the same junk filters and presets. There was zero need for your teams to spend time on that.

Integration plus basic metadata editing (tagging, face-tagging, captioning) are the holes in the current photo app ecosystem. You had the first of those well in hand. Now you've blown it.

If you want to know why reviewers keep ridiculing windows 8, it's because the apps your producing for it have lousier functionality than the standard apps of 5 years ago.

Seriously bad move.
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