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windows 8.1 is the hot new operating system from Microsoft that's designed to appease and improve upon some of the criticisms that last year's windows 8 was met with there are many changes in Windows 8.1 some of them you'll love and some of them you might hate this is adam lane for clocking out and in this video i'm going to talk about the 8 things i hate about windows 8.1 but be sure to also check out the 8 things I love about Windows 8.1 number one having to choose which window pane to launch apps into with Windows 8 it was very predictable that when you tapped a new app on the Start screen it would open in the larger window pane area right away now with the windows 8.1 a thumbnail I kind of your app appears on the border of a windowpane edge and then tilts back and forth that's supposed to indicate to you they have to choose where it should load and you touch the side that you wanted to go to optionally you can push the icon to the top to load it fullscreen number two the Photos app this has been completely changed from the windows 8 version and mostly it's worse no longer does it show photo albums from Facebook or Flickr accounts nor does it allow you to browse photo libraries found on any of your other pcs associated with your Microsoft ID basically you can only look at your local and SkyDrive photos now what's worse is that all the thumbnails crop the actual images so that you can't see the important parts everything is cropped to a horizontal rectangle around the center of the image that means for portrait photos all you can see is the person's chest you can't see their facial expression because it's cropped number three the messaging app is gone windows 8 came with an app called messaging which was a great place to manage all of your instant messaging threads between Facebook and live messenger chats it looked like it could even be expanded to sports skype and google chat actually if you go to outlook.com the web based messaging pain there does support live mr. google chat facebook chat and skype all at the same time it's really pretty nice too bad that's not on Windows 8.1 number for the calendar app doesn't work with exchange 2003 anymore Microsoft seems to have problems supporting its own products as well as its editor's sometimes in Windows 8.1 the calendar app will download data from an exchange 2003 account but it can't edit it or add to it luckily I've worked with the developers and a fix for this should be coming any day now number 5 the People app no longer shows who's online since the instant messaging integration was dropped there's no central location to see all of your friends that are online and available to chat instead you need separate apps and keep track of them separately so big step backwards number 6 if you're in desktop mode and you want to send a file from the file explorer via email normally you could right click the file and choose send to mail recipient that should open a new mail message with these selective files attached it doesn't work with Windows 8.1 email program though you get an error message instead number 7 the calendar app doesn't open ical files and doesn't integrate with facebook events I often use and am invited to events on facebook with Windows Phone these invites show up write it in my calendar and I can respond to them there it's very nicely integrated on one is 8.1 there's no such luck in order to get them to my exchange calendar I have to export the events from the Facebook webpage as ical files but they did not open in the native calendar app so I need to have outlook installed in order to handle such a seemingly basic function number II tasks in exchange accounts don't sink there's actually no interface included with Windows 8.1 for managing tasks as part of your exchange count you'll have to install the full version of Outlook to get that yes that means the iPad includes better support for exchange server accounts than Windows 8.1 does thanks for watching and don't forget to also watch the 8 things I love about Windows 8.1