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I hope this is a bug and not intentional, but if it is, it's just another pathetic attempt for Microsoft to compel engagement with its storefront instead of rel

I hope this is a bug and not intentional, but if it is, it's just another pathetic attempt for Microsoft to compel engagement with its storefront instead of releasing products that will convince people to use the Windows Store voluntary. If anybody from Microsoft is listening, this type of shady forced behavior only makes people want to avoid the store more. Also, your spun-off WRT/UWP apps are universally buggier than their old COM/.NET predecessors, and even when they are technically more featureful, they have a doughy, empty-calories-laden vibe that leaves them feeling less responsive.

roryisok 9y ago
> even when they are technically more featureful, When has a UWP app ever had more features than the Forms app it replaced? I'd love to know. Windows Mail doesn't even properly support attachments let alone do even a quarter of what Outlook does.
- sp332 9y ago
  I just checked and I didn't have any trouble sending attachments using the Mail app. I used a different interface to search my inbox for attachments, then checked them in the Mail app and they all seem to be fine.
  - Nexxxeh 9y ago
    Does it handle winmail.dat attachments? I genuinely don't know.
    - sp332 9y ago
      No, at least after being forwarded from gmail, it shows up as winmail.dat and the message body is in plain text, not rich text.
  - roryisok 9y ago
    Yeah, try again in a few weeks. Once the mails reach a certain age they lose attachments. Microsoft's recommended fix is to move the mails to another folder which will make the attachments reappear
- Nexxxeh 9y ago
  Do you mean Outlook or Outlook Express? The Windows Mail app is the crappy successor to Outlook Express, and Windows Live Mail. They were free (as in beer) and either bundled with the OS or in a free productivity pack. Outlook is a completely separate beast, usually acquired as part of Microsoft Office or with a premium Exchange-based email service.
ourmandave 9y ago
I noticed this on Picture Viewer after getting the Win 10 Creator Upgrade. My laptop was Win 7 and used that Picture Viewer. Now the default has been replaced with one that takes much longer to start up. Prob for a bunch of features I'll never use. And they removed the one I actually find useful, which is where it restarts at the top of the list when you reach the last image. =(
- Nannooskeeska 9y ago
  If you're looking for another quick and simple picture viewer, I recommend Irfanview [1]. I've been using it for a couple months and I'm finding it to be fantastic so far. [1] http://www.irfanview.com/ http://www.irfanview.com/
  - katastic 9y ago
    I tried it. I personally didn't find it very intuitive.
- dr_zoidberg 9y ago
  The other day I found that my Win10 (Home) has the old Win7 Picture Viewer by accidentally opening a TIF. Tada, old Picture Viewer is back (don't know for how long though).
- katastic 9y ago
  Don't forget MSpaint which is the "go to" place to dump a screenshot after pressing PrintScreen or ALT-PrintScreen (window capture) and pasting into it. And also quick annotations. God forbid people have useful, compact tool for quick image manipulations! But it competes with 3D Paint so IT HAS TO GO. That's right. New Windows 10 removes mspaint.

roryisok 9y ago

> even when they are technically more featureful, When has a UWP app ever had more features than the Forms app it replaced? I'd love to know. Windows Mail doesn't even properly support attachments let alone do even a quarter of what Outlook does.

sp332 9y ago
I just checked and I didn't have any trouble sending attachments using the Mail app. I used a different interface to search my inbox for attachments, then checked them in the Mail app and they all seem to be fine.
- Nexxxeh 9y ago
  Does it handle winmail.dat attachments? I genuinely don't know.
  - sp332 9y ago
    No, at least after being forwarded from gmail, it shows up as winmail.dat and the message body is in plain text, not rich text.
- roryisok 9y ago
  Yeah, try again in a few weeks. Once the mails reach a certain age they lose attachments. Microsoft's recommended fix is to move the mails to another folder which will make the attachments reappear
Nexxxeh 9y ago
Do you mean Outlook or Outlook Express? The Windows Mail app is the crappy successor to Outlook Express, and Windows Live Mail. They were free (as in beer) and either bundled with the OS or in a free productivity pack. Outlook is a completely separate beast, usually acquired as part of Microsoft Office or with a premium Exchange-based email service.

ourmandave 9y ago

I noticed this on Picture Viewer after getting the Win 10 Creator Upgrade. My laptop was Win 7 and used that Picture Viewer. Now the default has been replaced with one that takes much longer to start up. Prob for a bunch of features I'll never use. And they removed the one I actually find useful, which is where it restarts at the top of the list when you reach the last image. =(

Nannooskeeska 9y ago
If you're looking for another quick and simple picture viewer, I recommend Irfanview [1]. I've been using it for a couple months and I'm finding it to be fantastic so far. [1] http://www.irfanview.com/ http://www.irfanview.com/
- katastic 9y ago
  I tried it. I personally didn't find it very intuitive.
dr_zoidberg 9y ago
The other day I found that my Win10 (Home) has the old Win7 Picture Viewer by accidentally opening a TIF. Tada, old Picture Viewer is back (don't know for how long though).
katastic 9y ago
Don't forget MSpaint which is the "go to" place to dump a screenshot after pressing PrintScreen or ALT-PrintScreen (window capture) and pasting into it. And also quick annotations. God forbid people have useful, compact tool for quick image manipulations! But it competes with 3D Paint so IT HAS TO GO. That's right. New Windows 10 removes mspaint.