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

I suppose like lots of others the feature I am missing the most is the every-updating photo montage. What was the purpose in removing that?

The network share stuff is working for me. But I have the network folder in my Pictures library and the share is an indexed network share (since I use a windows 8 box as my file server). If you aren't seeing the network stuff working then perhaps you don't have an indexed share? Yeah it works in the final release with indexed shares which I half expected when I originally posted about it back in the first thread. It was frustrating at the time as it was something that also hadn't worked back in the original Windows 8 preview and was eventually fixed only to break again. I would assume people with NAS devices that can't be indexed are in the same position they were in with the original 8.0 release.

No longer allows images from other computers or the network - am guessing that because there is now support for SkyDrive on RT and MS is heavily emphasizing that as the preferred storage location (when you upgrade, one of the questions asked before you even get to the desktop is if you want to use SkyDrive as your default storage area - and that seems to be the default - and MS feels the network, NAS, Homegroup, and other computers are deprecated. Just to throw it out there but Music and Video also appear to have issues with seeing network content that was all working fine before the preview was installed. Of course if you go through Windows Explorer everything works as expected... its crazy to think that Microsoft would remove such a feature in an age where more and more people are storing picture, movies and music on separate hard drives. Nas drives must be supported! Guys, The network share stuff is working for me. But I have the network folder in my Pictures library and the share is an indexed network share (since I use a windows 8 box as my file server). If you aren't seeing the network stuff working then perhaps you don't have an indexed share? That being said I whole heartedly agree that its a travesty that this app has been so neutered. Its really a case of MS doing what is in their best interests rather than what is in their customer's best interests. Either that or its product management gone very awry!

Oddly, I half understand why they handicapped Photos App. Excluding the possible pressure from Facebook, etc., consider the fact that offering such networking to your other computers and to other clouds (Facebook, Flickr, etc.), there's little incentive for most people to *pay* for SkyDrive. I personally had a use for SkyDrive and chose to pay for it, but when most could just upload their pics for free to Flickr, Facebook, and even their other home networked computers, there's simply no reason to shell out $50 got MS cloud service. This sucks....a lot....and, well, it makes the entire app (and SkyDrive) entirely useless to me.

No longer allows images from other computers or the network - am guessing that because there is now support for SkyDrive on RT and MS is heavily emphasizing that as the preferred storage location (when you upgrade, one of the questions asked before you even get to the desktop is if you want to use SkyDrive as your default storage area - and that seems to be the default - and MS feels the network, NAS, Homegroup, and other computers are deprecated. Just to throw it out there but Music and Video also appear to have issues with seeing network content that was all working fine before the preview was installed. Of course if you go through Windows Explorer everything works as expected... its crazy to think that Microsoft would remove such a feature in an age where more and more people are storing picture, movies and music on separate hard drives. Nas drives must be supported!

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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2013-10-21T05:31:24+00:00

I suppose like lots of others the feature I am missing the most is the every-updating photo montage. What was the purpose in removing that?
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2013-10-21T02:46:00+00:00

The network share stuff is working for me. But I have the network folder in my Pictures library and the share is an indexed network share (since I use a windows 8 box as my file server). If you aren't seeing the network stuff working then perhaps you don't have an indexed share?

Yeah it works in the final release with indexed shares which I half expected when I originally posted about it back in the first thread. It was frustrating at the time as it was something that also hadn't worked back in the original Windows 8 preview and was eventually fixed only to break again.

I would assume people with NAS devices that can't be indexed are in the same position they were in with the original 8.0 release.
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2013-10-21T02:22:04+00:00
No longer allows images from other computers or the network - am guessing that because there is now support for SkyDrive on RT and MS is heavily emphasizing that as the preferred storage location (when you upgrade, one of the questions asked before you even get to the desktop is if you want to use SkyDrive as your default storage area - and that seems to be the default - and MS feels the network, NAS, Homegroup, and other computers are deprecated.

Just to throw it out there but Music and Video also appear to have issues with seeing network content that was all working fine before the preview was installed. Of course if you go through Windows Explorer everything works as expected...

its crazy to think that Microsoft would remove such a feature in an age where more and more people are storing picture, movies and music on separate hard drives. Nas drives must be supported!
Guys,

The network share stuff is working for me. But I have the network folder in my Pictures library and the share is an indexed network share (since I use a windows 8 box as my file server). If you aren't seeing the network stuff working then perhaps you don't have an indexed share?

That being said I whole heartedly agree that its a travesty that this app has been so neutered. Its really a case of MS doing what is in their best interests rather than what is in their customer's best interests. Either that or its product management gone very awry!
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2013-10-20T23:53:51+00:00

Oddly, I half understand why they handicapped Photos App.

Excluding the possible pressure from Facebook, etc., consider the fact that offering such networking to your other computers and to other clouds (Facebook, Flickr, etc.), there's little incentive for most people to *pay* for SkyDrive. I personally had a use for SkyDrive and chose to pay for it, but when most could just upload their pics for free to Flickr, Facebook, and even their other home networked computers, there's simply no reason to shell out $50 got MS cloud service.

This sucks....a lot....and, well, it makes the entire app (and SkyDrive) entirely useless to me.
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2013-10-20T23:50:12+00:00
No longer allows images from other computers or the network - am guessing that because there is now support for SkyDrive on RT and MS is heavily emphasizing that as the preferred storage location (when you upgrade, one of the questions asked before you even get to the desktop is if you want to use SkyDrive as your default storage area - and that seems to be the default - and MS feels the network, NAS, Homegroup, and other computers are deprecated.

Just to throw it out there but Music and Video also appear to have issues with seeing network content that was all working fine before the preview was installed. Of course if you go through Windows Explorer everything works as expected...
its crazy to think that Microsoft would remove such a feature in an age where more and more people are storing picture, movies and music on separate hard drives. Nas drives must be supported!
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