Yes there are a lot of people about this decision. Even 3 years after 2013 was released. The solution is marked as an answer on the first page. You can (for now at least) still get a free copy of "Picture Manager".
Your point is well written, but this is no longer the right place to be making it. MS has set up a bunch subsites on the "UserVoice" forum specifically to take "suggestions" and feature requests from users. MS program managers area actively monitoring those
forums. There is already a request to bring Picture Manager back. Copy your comment from above and paste it into a new comment on that suggestion. Also Get everyone you know to vote for it.
Bring back Picture Manger to the Office Bundlehttps://office.uservoice.com/forums/285186-general/suggestions/12498702-bring-picture-manager-back-to-office-bundle
"UserVoice.com" - MS Suggestion box sites
If you have an (other) feature suggestions to make for various MS products, here is a longer collection of MS UserVoice.com sites:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wiki/windows_10-desktop/ms-suggestion-box-sites-at-uservoicecom/7397119c-6d48-49e6-8d94-7bd0a50d214f
Go to UserVoice, either through specific links I’ve provided or create your own suggestions there. That is where MS is looking specifically for this type of
user feedback to bring them back to reality from what-ever lala-land they are working in when they make these "improvements". Comments (and votes) like these in UserVoice helped to convince MS to roll back the "phat QAT" buttons in 2016.
Please do copy the comments you've made here and paste them into comments in UserVoice. If you make a new suggestion, copy the link to your suggestion and post
it back on this question so other people with the same problem can vote for it and comment on it. (You’ll get faster action that way.)
This blog has a picture to show MS really is looking at UserVoice sites:
http://blog.indezine.com/2016/02/powerpoint-feedback-and-uservoice-does.html
https://www.change.org/p/satya-nadella-microsoft-what-computer-users-want-changed-in-windows-10
Here are links to some of my personal “favorite” specific suggestions:
Bring back all of the old grammar checking rules -https://word.uservoice.com/forums/304924-word-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/10009743-bring-back-the-valuable-style-checking-tools-that
Back out change to make pen Ink default
MS Is working on this issue ****341 total votes as of Feb 26, 2016 – Mar 2016 MS pushed out a Windows Update to at least partially fix the problem
30 votes -
https://office.uservoice.com/forums/285186-general/suggestions/12473571-have-some-way-to-turn-inking-off-for-machines-usin
Office in General
52 voteTo
using Surface Pro 4 Pen as a mouse in PowerPoint 2016 instead of inking -
PowerPoint
106 vote Use the pen as a mouse- Word
153 vote let pen usage toggle between inking and pointer -
Excel
Recently Used List Sort order: Date vs Alpha as of Feb 22, 2016
10 votes https://word.uservoice.com/forums/304924-word-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/10137741-recently-used-list-sort-order-date-vs-alpha
144 vote https://excel.uservoice.com/forums/304921-excel-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/10261443-recent-files-pane-in-excel-2013-was-pretty-good-b
Excel Suggestion “Under review” Nov 25, 2015 (wow, fast action)
Petition to MS President to allow Windows Home users control Windows Updateshttps://www.change.org/p/satya-nadella-microsoft-what-computer-users-want-changed-in-windows-10 (The matching UserVoice
site has been discontinued by MS)
Don’t want Office 2016 tied to Userid -https://office.uservoice.com/forums/285186-general/suggestions/10517283-allow-activation-without-the-need-of-a-ms-mail-acc
Actually there are multiple threads with same point. As of Feb 1 2016 there are 785 votes on this question in multiple suggestions
ALLOW Activation without the need of a MS mail account. 386 votes
Office 2016 OEM without LiveID account 138 votes
Office 2016 Activation and installation without an email account 172 votes
return to the same process for activating Office 2016 that was used for all previous versions of Office. No "Live" accounts!
26 Votes
The Office 2016 Activation process is impossible for business's that purchase Microsoft licensing OEM. 70 votes
Activation without a live account. 7 votes
Need Office 2016 activation WITHOUT a Microsoft account! 6 votes
Allow Business Admin Portal to manage Office 1-time payment licenses toohttps://office.uservoice.com/forums/285186-general/suggestions/11448504-allow-business-admin-portal-to-manage-office-2016
Improve Highlightinghttps://word.uservoice.com/forums/304924-word-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/9389778-improve-highlighting
Make the full spectrum of colors that are available in Shading also available in Highlighting. I often use Highlighting to mark important or unusual text streams and I would like to search for particular colors of Highlighting .
Visio 365 monthly specifically for Consumer licenses -https://office.uservoice.com/forums/285186-general/suggestions/10936428-visio365-monthly-for-consumer-365-users-and-oth
Recreate the single text margin around page like 2010 and earlier -http://word.uservoice.com/forums/304924-word-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/9253599-bring-back-classic-text-boundaries
Restore Radial Menu to OneNote439 votes total Feb 20 2016 ****148 votes Include radial menu in desktop onenote
20 votes Radial Menu -
183 votes Bring back the radial fly out menu in the W10 Store version of OneNote -
42 votes Bring back Radial Menu and Camera insert in Windows 10
16 votes- Bring back Radial Menu for Windows 10 App
25 votes- Keep the OneNote Windows 8 UI over the Windows 10 Beta UI
plus a bunch more pen requests
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Add mind mapping to OneNote -https://onenote.uservoice.com/forums/327186-onenote-for-windows-windows-phone/suggestions/6160979-mindmap-functionality?page=4&per_page=20
Custom installation from Office 365 (2016) / Return MSI installer option - ****https://office365.uservoice.com/forums/264636-general/suggestions/9939513-custom-installation-from-office-365-2016
Word 2016 Style Pane bug -mouse pointer wrong
https://word.uservoice.com/forums/304924-word-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/11196345-word-2016-style-pane-corrupt-or-buggy-after-update
Add PowerPivot back to Access (and to Excel in all bundles)https://access.uservoice.com/forums/319956-access-desktop/suggestions/10284183-add-pivot-charts-back-to-access
Add BI/PowerPivot back to Excel in all bundles -https://excel.uservoice.com/forums/304921-excel-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/9018823-make-the-power-bi-family-powerpivot-powerquery
'Worksheet' Tabs to Wordhttps://word.uservoice.com/forums/304924-word-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/10024812--worksheet-tabs-to-word
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