New Photo, new Backup app/experience, Copilot…
Windows 10 seems too popular 🙂

p.s.
if you want the old Photo app, MS’s InboxApps iso’s are still available

https://software-download.microsoft.com/download/pr/19041.1.191206-1406.vb_release_amd64fre_InboxApps.iso
https://software-download.microsoft.com/download/pr/19041.508.200905-1327.vb_release_svc_prod1_amd64fre_InboxApps.iso
https://software-download.microsoft.com/download/sg/19041.928.210407-2138.vb_release_svc_prod1_amd64fre_InboxApps.iso

abbodi86 wrote:

New Photo, new Backup app/experience, Copilot…
Windows 10 seems too popular

p.s.
if you want the old Photo app,

I have neither on my Windows 10 Pro 22H2.

b wrote:

This one?

Windows 11 version 24H2

No.

There was a X link post with Windows 12.

I’m still using Google’s Picasa 3.x under Win10!

One important function of a Photos oriented app is color management.  At one point I don’t believe the Photos app was properly color managed, and I used to resort to using a registry hack to reactivate the old “Windows Photo Viewer” dll for viewing .jpg and .tif files because it is color managed to use the display ICC Profile.  While this article is about the unexpected back-porting of new Photos app features to Windows 10, also of note, this current Photos app is especially useful in Windows 11 because of it’s current color management capabilities:

For those with 10bit and\or wide-gamut calibrated & profiled displays, some may be able to use the new “Automatically manage color for apps” (AMC) OS-wide advanced color management in Windows 11.  This also requires access to special “Advanced Color” AMC versions of ICC display profiles.  It enables wide-gamut displays to show images without them appearing over-saturated as they would appear in a non-color-managed environment or a non-color-managed app that expects an sRGB display.

The setting to use this Windows 11 AMC feature is a toggle that can be found under the Display\Advanced Display settings if the system is deemed capable of AMC by Windows. (This toggle setting is not even shown otherwise.)

The only app I’m aware of that natively supports the AMC configuration is the Photos app (tough to find a native-AMC-aware app-listing though!)  It can accurately display standard sRGB images as well as wide-gamut tagged images, even side-by-side.  When AMC is toggled on, non-color-managed output or apps will be displayed as sRGB color space.  Legacy color-aware apps require a Compatibility setting checked in their properties in order to continue providing accurate color-aware output beyond sRGB (Windows will then use an emulated AMC version of the legacy ICC display profile.)  Ironically, the old legacy color managed “Windows Photo Viewer”, because it’s a DLL & doesn’t have a Compatibility tab in the Properties dialog, can’t be configured to use its legacy style color management and so isn’t as ICC capable under AMC.

For me, this accurate color management capability for Win11’s AMC is among the most important current features of the Photos app.