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

It is a shame that Microsoft will not listen to their customers on this subject, especially with all the talk that they listen to feedback. I will not use the Photos app at all until they bring this integration back in. I agree...and I won't be buying any Windows 8.1 device or upgrading any of my other computers either

This is the best video Carmen Zlateff ever made, this is what people want as a Photo apps ! All the feature we want are in that video ! http://youtu.be/R0qBZyjK2MU I can't understand why they change it into 8.1 This is absolutely astounding. Photos App, far from being perfect, was the first step in an awesome direction. I believed in the direction MS was going with this paradigm....and, well, they just decided to forget it. I actually purchased a new computer with Windows 8, 200gb Skydrive, etc., just so I could network my computers, share my photos across devices, etc., as I'm a photographer and want all of my images (and original raw files) always at my fingertips. Tough luck, right? ;)

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 strongly disagree. In fact, there really was no need for a Flickr app anyway, at least not on the Surface tablet. The screen is plenty big to navigate Flickr. (Well, almost -- I do use a mouse or a stylus when the menu items are small on IE pages.) So what would an app do that IE cannot? just lay out the page so that functions are more easily accessed, right? I can live without a Flickr app. What I really miss is the integration that you yourself described in your YouTube video here... http://youtu.be/R0qBZyjK2MU Bring it back, please!

I've got $10 that says Facebook or Flickr or both put pressure on Microsoft to stop including their photos in the Photos app in exchange for them working on Windows 8 apps of their own. Of course, there is no Flickr app yet. I will say that, with the improvements to SkyDrive, I actually used the Photos app today to go through the photos from a recent trip and delete redundant ones. I liked how I could open the Adobe Photoshop Essentials app to edit photos from the built-in Photos app. For me, the elimination of the Facebook and Flickr connections is not a huge deal, but I can understand for others how it might be.

I wonder when an official Flickr app will appear, but I am not waiting around any longer. I have unpinned the photos app from my start screen as it is completely useless to me now. Yes, it may have some photo editing functionality, but that is not what I want. I want a photo app that integrates with everything I use. The best one I have found so far is PhotoWeaver, found here: http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/photoweaver/ef27c980-ffdb-438a-b16e-e4699ca0044c It is a shame that Microsoft will not listen to their customers on this subject, especially with all the talk that they listen to feedback. I will not use the Photos app at all until they bring this integration back in.

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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2013-10-20T23:49:56+00:00

It is a shame that Microsoft will not listen to their customers on this subject, especially with all the talk that they listen to feedback. I will not use the Photos app at all until they bring this integration back in.

I agree...and I won't be buying any Windows 8.1 device or upgrading any of my other computers either
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2013-10-20T23:48:22+00:00

This is the best video Carmen Zlateff ever made, this is what people want as a Photo apps !

All the feature we want are in that video !

http://youtu.be/R0qBZyjK2MU

I can't understand why they change it into 8.1

This is absolutely astounding. Photos App, far from being perfect, was the first step in an awesome direction. I believed in the direction MS was going with this paradigm....and, well, they just decided to forget it.

I actually purchased a new computer with Windows 8, 200gb Skydrive, etc., just so I could network my computers, share my photos across devices, etc., as I'm a photographer and want all of my images (and original raw files) always at my fingertips. Tough luck, right? ;)
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2013-10-20T23:30:18+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 strongly disagree. In fact, there really was no need for a Flickr app anyway, at least not on the Surface tablet. The screen is plenty big to navigate Flickr. (Well, almost -- I do use a mouse or a stylus when the menu items are small on IE pages.) So what would an app do that IE cannot? just lay out the page so that functions are more easily accessed, right? I can live without a Flickr app. What I really miss is the integration that you yourself described in your YouTube video here...

http://youtu.be/R0qBZyjK2MU

Bring it back, please!
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2013-10-20T23:12:15+00:00

I've got $10 that says Facebook or Flickr or both put pressure on Microsoft to stop including their photos in the Photos app in exchange for them working on Windows 8 apps of their own. Of course, there is no Flickr app yet.

I will say that, with the improvements to SkyDrive, I actually used the Photos app today to go through the photos from a recent trip and delete redundant ones. I liked how I could open the Adobe Photoshop Essentials app to edit photos from the built-in Photos app. For me, the elimination of the Facebook and Flickr connections is not a huge deal, but I can understand for others how it might be.
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2013-10-20T19:21:50+00:00

I wonder when an official Flickr app will appear, but I am not waiting around any longer. I have unpinned the photos app from my start screen as it is completely useless to me now. Yes, it may have some photo editing functionality, but that is not what I want. I want a photo app that integrates with everything I use. The best one I have found so far is PhotoWeaver, found here:

http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/photoweaver/ef27c980-ffdb-438a-b16e-e4699ca0044c

It is a shame that Microsoft will not listen to their customers on this subject, especially with all the talk that they listen to feedback. I will not use the Photos app at all until they bring this integration back in.
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