• Microsoft Photos, Photos Legacy, and Windows 10

    Posted on December 4, 2023 at 02:42 CST by • Comment in the Forums

    WINDOWS 11

    Ed Tittel

    By Ed Tittel

    An investigation into the backport of the new Microsoft Photos app into Windows 10 raises some interesting questions. Not all have answers.

    A funny thing happened to Windows 10 late this summer. Microsoft proclaimed in April that no new feature upgrades would happen for this older but still vigorous Windows OS, an unexpected feature release for Windows 10 silently upgraded the Photos app. This “new” version turns out to be the same as the Photos app in Windows 11. At the end of October, yet another Photos app, called Photos Legacy, appeared in the Microsoft Store; it supposedly matches the original version bundled with Windows 10.

    Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (20.49.0, 2023-12-04).

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