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

Barb Bowman 80,805 Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
2013-06-26T19:27:25+00:00

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:

  1. 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>

  1. 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.

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-06-28T20:38:11+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 very much hope that you are as far away from the engineering team as I am, because your reply suggests a basic lack of understanding of the subject matter, as well as a misunderstanding of the current design ethos for the photos app.

    As I suspect you fear, Carmen Zlateff is apparently a Principal Lead Program Manager at Microsoft, and has been working in the area of digital photo applications for some time...

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-06-28T20:18:31+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 very much hope that you are as far away from the engineering team as I am, because your reply suggests a basic lack of understanding of the subject matter, as well as a misunderstanding of the current design ethos for the photos app.

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-06-28T18:16:41+00:00

    Carmen,

    There is another insidious issue here. When I connect a camera and hit Import I don't want the photos to go to the local drive, I want them to go to my server. This was dead simple by setting the save location in a library, but now I'm not even sure how you would go about it. Use explorer?

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-06-28T16:58:54+00:00

    Hi Adam,

    Thank you for posting this question on Microsoft Community Forums.

    I would like to inform you that the following link is a discussion thread. Please refer it and post your comments:

    http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8\_1\_pr-pictures/photos-app-in-81-loses-many-features/24ae3087-e627-4813-a887-49333a0d12dc?page=1&tm=1372422754261

    Please get back to us with the status of the issue.

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  5. Anonymous
    2013-06-28T16:58:47+00:00

    The ability to add pictures from Skydrive and other computers are gone in the Settings-->Options menu.

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