In comparison to Windows Photo Viewer, the new ‘Photos’ app is much more than a simple photo viewing program. Unlike the classic Windows photo tool, the application actually offers lots of additional functions and editing possibilities for your graphics, images and photos. In principle, then, ‘Photos’ is suitable for a wide range of purposes but it is also more cumbersome and more of a drain on computing performance than the Windows Photo Viewer. Opening an image file takes significantly longer as a consequence.
Another disadvantage of the new Windows image viewer is that ‘Photos’ does not provide complete support for color management. The mapping of input color spaces on the monitor, which is fundamental for an accurate representation of images, graphics and photos on the monitor, is, therefore, limited. The old photo viewer doesn’t have this problem.