Microsoft has announced during its Windows 10 press event today that Windows 10 will include support for a new Photos app. It will be a universal app that will work with both PC and smaller mobile devices like smartphones.
The Photo app will combine both on-device photos as well as those located on a user's OneDrive account, and eliminates any duplicate photos. The app will also include some automatic image enhancing, but users an can toggle on/off to see the original photo. The enhancements will remove red-eye, balances lighting and more.
The Photos app will sync up from a phone, to the OneDrive, and down to a PC. It can also creates automatic photo albums based on time, location, but users can create albums manually.
The new Photos app won't be available in the upcoming Windows 10 preview build that will be released soon for Windows Insiders but it is coming in the future. Stay tuned as we will continue to post information from the Windows 10 press event. To see it all roll in live be sure to join us in the liveblog!
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Windows 10 will include a new universal Photos app
I like the Hamburger menu
Hamburger menu???on all apps..well its better to get android then having something like android
I hate the freaking hamburger. If you really freakin want the hamburger Microsoft then put it at the bottom? Then I might accept this horror.
Looks good, but that tile of photos app Joe has pinned in video which he is telling details about Windows 10, worries me that photos app tile won't be live tile. :|
HAMBURGER MENU. And everything at the top to say the least. That's not ideal.
vote here guys!
https://windowsphone.uservoice.com/forums/101801-feature-suggestions/suggestions/6623043-stick-to-modern-don-t-copy-android
Amazing!
What the hell the ellipsis is doing up there???
Garbage. If i wanted to use a clunky UI I would've stuck with Android.
The good thing about it is, not only does nobody care, but you can also go buy something thats NOT a windows phone.
This app better support tagging and face recognition like the old Live Photo Gallery app...
Looking cool, nice improvement
Is there any point in staying with Windows phone if Microsoft are making it look more and more like Android?
Did you even watch the presentation?
That you hear people say something does not mean you have to repeat it.
Very cool. I can dig. I like having universal apps for this type of stuff.
1..2..3 let the whining begin
Good bye metro design and good bye microsoft because if i wanted that design that makes doing things difficult i would choose ios because its better at this then Microsoft will ever be !!! And now you pushed me to it
Cool
The hamburger menu is making it into more MS apps, and so far, looks like its going to be in their new design principles. Why would you move UX from where thumbs are to where a long reach/second hand is required?!
Uggh.....not impressed by most of the new UX. Some cool additions, I like the idea/tech of universal apps but....UX is going downhill in my opinion. I'm guessing this is to make it easy to have universal apps be the "same" between platforms. Still....I can't imagine there wouldn't be some way to make it work better for one handed use.
It'll probably be a swipe in from the side will bring it out
It still is a rather large stretch of the thumb (for righties anyhow) to swipe from the left, than it is to simply swipe up. Up from base makes more UX sense.
Then get an iphone. They are made for little girl hands.
I agree, they could simply put this top bar with the hamburger menu to the bottom on small screen devices.
I'm just hoping the new photos & people "apps" now won't share the same fate as music & video.
There is a new music app too
Now new spartan browser also for phones ,,,, sooooo excited
This is where I lost all interest. Bye.
Why?
Because they kept us waiting for this long, just to say that new build will be out NEXT WEEK.
Dude. You can't wait one week? Maybe they have a couple of finishing touches for that build.
This isn't about waiting one week. This is about waiting one MORE week. Common sense is to make presentation when build is ready, not week before it. That's just doesn't make any sense, there is absolutely no logical reason behind it whatsoever!
This new photo section won't be added to the windows insider which we have to wait for 2 weeks...but for a later update in the future.. You see where they are leading us to?
Okhay..not complaing here..just that we gatta wait for this future.
Dude, WTF does MS owe you? Why do people like you treat them and their PRODUCTS like they have to cater to you? You either buy it or you don't. If you don't like Nikes, you buy somthing else. If you don't like burgers you eat something else. If you don't like clothes from the Gap you buy them someplace else. You don't stand in the middle of the store demanding they deviate from their business model/plan and cater to you. F*ck off and go buy something that pleases you.
You have it twisted thinking it's your job or right to hold them to an unrealistc standard simply because you enjoy hearing yourself whine, cry and complain.
Hamburger menu...
Oh for Pete's sakes, pls shush. Every article you whine about the Hamburger. Get over it, please. Bore off somewhere else you tedious bell end.
If I don't like it I'm free to say what I want... I think it's a stupid and ugly thing, and it has nothing to do with the Metro design.
It's not handy to reach the top of your screen to click a button with some options that can be putted in the app bar...