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Microsoft Begins Rolling Out iCloud Photos Integration on Windows 11
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iCloud photos on Windows preserves original capture (taken date) and modification (same a taken date) date EVEN if the photo is edited (cropped, orientation, etc) on an iOS device. That way sorting pics is easier.
when you export photos with modifications on Photos for Mac, the modification date is changed. The only way on photos for Mac to export a photo with the original taken date is to export without modifications which, as the name suggests, removes the modifications.
What’s missing on Windows is support for Live Photos. Btw, it’s sad that Live Photos are two separate files on Mac, it’d have been much better it Apple had created a single file format (container)for Live Photos.
Also a thing that’s missing for Windows is support for iCloud Albums, regular ones as well as Smart Albums. The latter are also still missing from iOS.
Also, you can’t delete a photo from the windows photos app and it deletes from the server.
when you export photos with modifications on Photos for Mac, the modification date is changed. The only way on photos for Mac to export a photo with the original taken date is to export without modifications which, as the name suggests, removes the modifications.
What’s missing on Windows is support for Live Photos. Btw, it’s sad that Live Photos are two separate files on Mac, it’d have been much better it Apple had created a single file format (container)for Live Photos.
Also a thing that’s missing for Windows is support for iCloud Albums, regular ones as well as Smart Albums. The latter are also still missing from iOS.
Also, you can’t delete a photo from the windows photos app and it deletes from the server.
Honestly, you should be using Apple hardware and software to enjoy Apple services. It's a bit much expecting Apple to have premium quality apps on every one-off platform because of a specific scenario. If I was primarily a windows user, I'd be using Spotify personally.
As a Windows user I do use Spotify instead of Apple Music and I do use OneDrive instead of iCloud. The only thing I use iCloud for is activation lock.
Apple is gonna hold on to building apps using its own native tools for a very long time and I don't blame them either. Look at the fiasco with Electron apps?
Apple need to fix the quality issue in iCloud photo. The photos in icloud is not the same with in iPhone. It’s degraded.
We should submit Feedbacknor a Radar for every bug in the Windows App until it works correctly.
I think it would be good for Apple to become a Software focused Company like Microsoft. There is so much Opportunity to run good software on their devices.
Most of what we see now is facelifts of Old Apps.
I assume this is just another re-write of the Windows iCloud App which has been various rates of terrible over the years.
I think it would be good for Apple to become a Software focused Company like Microsoft. There is so much Opportunity to run good software on their devices.
Most of what we see now is facelifts of Old Apps.
I assume this is just another re-write of the Windows iCloud App which has been various rates of terrible over the years.
Neither Apple nor Microsoft are big on mining your photos for advertising purposes. In fact, Microsoft made a big deal about how email accounts for Outlook.com and Hotmail are not mined for advertising (they had a bunch of anti-Google ads pointing out that Microsoft does not read your email).
These two companies have other ways of making money. Can you imagine all the big corporate accounts that Microsoft would lose if they started going through people's photos for data mining? And Apple has gone to great lengths to do all the photo machine learning tasks on-device.
Who would have guessed 15 years ago that Microsoft would be so gun ho to integrate with Apple services? Does anybody remember when Microsoft had Zune and later when they were investing heavily in Windows Phones (not the old Windows CE devices, but the ones Nokia manufactured). The times, they are a changing.
Nope not an insider. iCloud Photos works with the previous photos app. The new photos app just looks slightly different. I can’t see what the new functionality is.
My question is, when will Microsoft roll out a version of Windows 11 that will run natively on the Apple Silicon Macs?
I do miss being able to run Windows in Boot Camp.
I do miss being able to run Windows in Boot Camp.
Windows on ARM already exists and you can run it using UTM or Parallels And probably other hypervisors as well.
True, but I've tried it in Parallels on my M1 14" base MacBook Pro, and it feels a little slow or laggy compared to running Windows in Boot Camp even on my old 12" retina MacBook.
I believe Parallels running on Apple Silicon is still in beta so there’s a lot of optimization left to do I’m sure. This is still early days yet for mainstream PCs running ARM processors.
You really think that would stop Microsoft? Common sense and a DOJ investigation didn't stop them, so I'm sure concerns over leafing through users photos would sure stop them in their tracks.