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

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. That doesn't make a lick of sense to me. The hubs are a particular strength of the Windows Phone platform and you'd think that Windows borrows from that rather than backing away from it. The photo app in Windows 8 went the exact right direction and not even far enough. Now you're basically begging for someone to build a feature equivalent replacement. Indefensible feature cut in my view.

Whats Next?? Will the Picture app in Windows Phone get the same "upgrade"? Facebook, twitter, Flick and all the others, all have apps for Windows Phone, so maybe we will se the picrure app loose integration too :( That is if Microsoft really believes that integration is not needed, if there are other apps to do the task, then we should soon see WIndows Phone Loose a lot of functionality and integration... Microsoft say that Skydrive is more Integrated into WIndows 8.1, but it seems like its only in desktop mode. No more Skydrive Pictures in the Picture app :( No more Facebook Pictures in the Picture app :( This sucks big time!! I have about 5000 Pictures in totalt, spread across Facebook, skydrive and my computer. So now I have to switch between these apps all the time!! Argh! I hope someone can make a better Picture app, that integrates facebook and skydrive. Big step down for Windows 8.1!!

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. Your statement is fine IF, and only IF, there is a way for those third parties to integrate their cloud stream of Pictures into the Photo app. If you have to open each of the third party app to view the pictures this is pretty useless and a dumb move. If I want to upload pictures and do some management, yes, then I can open the app for that request. This was one of the top 10 features of Windows 8. Dumb move.

this is terrible. Why would MS decide to make the photos app much less useful? I don't understand how integration with at least SkyDrive is missing. This makes no sense and hoping this is completely overhauled before release of Win 8.1.

Aaaargh! I've got my files / Skydrive files in such a mess trying to work through this stinking photo issue... doing a fresh install of Win8. Peace Out!

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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2013-07-04T10:01:35+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.

That doesn't make a lick of sense to me. The hubs are a particular strength of the Windows Phone platform and you'd think that Windows borrows from that rather than backing away from it. The photo app in Windows 8 went the exact right direction and not even far enough. Now you're basically begging for someone to build a feature equivalent replacement. Indefensible feature cut in my view.
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2013-07-04T07:13:08+00:00

Whats Next?? Will the Picture app in Windows Phone get the same "upgrade"? Facebook, twitter, Flick and all the others, all have apps for Windows Phone, so maybe we will se the picrure app loose integration too :( That is if Microsoft really believes that integration is not needed, if there are other apps to do the task, then we should soon see WIndows Phone Loose a lot of functionality and integration...

Microsoft say that Skydrive is more Integrated into WIndows 8.1, but it seems like its only in desktop mode. No more Skydrive Pictures in the Picture app :( No more Facebook Pictures in the Picture app :(

This sucks big time!! I have about 5000 Pictures in totalt, spread across Facebook, skydrive and my computer. So now I have to switch between these apps all the time!! Argh!

I hope someone can make a better Picture app, that integrates facebook and skydrive.

Big step down for Windows 8.1!!
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2013-07-04T06:08:43+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.

Your statement is fine IF, and only IF, there is a way for those third parties to integrate their cloud stream of Pictures into the Photo app. If you have to open each of the third party app to view the pictures this is pretty useless and a dumb move. If I want to upload pictures and do some management, yes, then I can open the app for that request.

This was one of the top 10 features of Windows 8.

Dumb move.
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2013-07-04T02:57:05+00:00

this is terrible. Why would MS decide to make the photos app much less useful? I don't understand how integration with at least SkyDrive is missing. This makes no sense and hoping this is completely overhauled before release of Win 8.1.
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2013-07-03T21:57:58+00:00

Aaaargh! I've got my files / Skydrive files in such a mess trying to work through this stinking photo issue... doing a fresh install of Win8. Peace Out!
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