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

This is a pity because I don't have ready access to SkyDrive and I am reliant on my internal storage and additional portable external hard drives. My 14GB free on my 32GB tablet doesn't allow me to store all my pics/music/video and my SD of 128GB helps a lot in this regard but it is really frustrating not being able to access and look at my pictures "normally" from the SD card, which I am using as my main storage.

This really was a terrible idea. I haven't touched the photos hub app since i upgraded to 8.1, when it was integrated with other services i used it all the time. This is a HUGE step backwards in functionality. Same could be said about the messaging app that just disappeared along with all of my conversations. Why would you move away from the one defining characteristic of this new platform, the idea of HUBS. that's why i use a windows phone and a windows tablet, which is now my one and only computer, laptop/desktop replacement. HUBs are your differentiators, please bring them back. Without that functionality, the photos app is useless, since i don't really store any pictures on my tablet.

The Verge are reporting on a new build of 8.1 which appears to confirm at least some of our fears. http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/12/4613248/windows-8-1-build-9741-screenshots-tutorial-changes Microsoft dropped Facebook and Flickr photo integration in the preview version of Windows 8.1, and there's no sign this is making a return in the pre-final version. SkyDrive is now fully integrated into the Photos app, but Facebook and Flickr are both missing.

The Verge are reporting on a new build of 8.1 which appears to confirm at least some of our fears. http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/12/4613248/windows-8-1-build-9741-screenshots-tutorial-changes Microsoft dropped Facebook and Flickr photo integration in the preview version of Windows 8.1, and there's no sign this is making a return in the pre-final version. SkyDrive is now fully integrated into the Photos app, but Facebook and Flickr are both missing. From what I've seen, they've also removed the Skydrive "Fetch Files" option that let me see other computers on my home network when I was away.

At work, we have to pay for our own PC's. I was the first to upgrade my PC to Windows 8 and people and customers are ALWAYS asking me if I like it. I explain that I love it and I always use the Photo hub feature of being able to access pictures from my home PC and facebook as a GREAT selling point. So much for that. I guess I will have to stop pitching Windows 8. Such a huge disappointment. I hope Windows Blue for Windows Phone doesn't ruin that operating system.

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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2013-08-04T16:20:29+00:00

This is a pity because I don't have ready access to SkyDrive and I am reliant on my internal storage and additional portable external hard drives. My 14GB free on my 32GB tablet doesn't allow me to store all my pics/music/video and my SD of 128GB helps a lot in this regard but it is really frustrating not being able to access and look at my pictures "normally" from the SD card, which I am using as my main storage.
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2013-08-05T17:33:55+00:00

This really was a terrible idea. I haven't touched the photos hub app since i upgraded to 8.1, when it was integrated with other services i used it all the time. This is a HUGE step backwards in functionality. Same could be said about the messaging app that just disappeared along with all of my conversations. Why would you move away from the one defining characteristic of this new platform, the idea of HUBS. that's why i use a windows phone and a windows tablet, which is now my one and only computer, laptop/desktop replacement. HUBs are your differentiators, please bring them back. Without that functionality, the photos app is useless, since i don't really store any pictures on my tablet.
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2013-08-12T13:33:54+00:00

The Verge are reporting on a new build of 8.1 which appears to confirm at least some of our fears.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/12/4613248/windows-8-1-build-9741-screenshots-tutorial-changes

Microsoftdropped Facebook and Flickr photo integration in the preview version of Windows 8.1, and there's no sign this is making a return in the pre-final version. SkyDrive is now fully integrated into the Photos app, but Facebook and Flickr are both missing.
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2013-08-12T14:05:54+00:00

The Verge are reporting on a new build of 8.1 which appears to confirm at least some of our fears.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/12/4613248/windows-8-1-build-9741-screenshots-tutorial-changes

Microsoftdropped Facebook and Flickr photo integration in the preview version of Windows 8.1, and there's no sign this is making a return in the pre-final version. SkyDrive is now fully integrated into the Photos app, but Facebook and Flickr are both missing.

From what I've seen, they've also removed the Skydrive "Fetch Files" option that let me see other computers on my home network when I was away.
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2013-08-12T14:55:23+00:00

At work, we have to pay for our own PC's. I was the first to upgrade my PC to Windows 8 and people and customers are ALWAYS asking me if I like it. I explain that I love it and I always use the Photo hub feature of being able to access pictures from my home PC and facebook as a GREAT selling point. So much for that. I guess I will have to stop pitching Windows 8. Such a huge disappointment.

I hope Windows Blue for Windows Phone doesn't ruin that operating system.
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