It also has a large permanent gutter, can't successfully fullscreen an image, can't switch images while zoomed (really common lately but still dumb), resizes to some third size if you double click on it twice(??), and loses its zoom state if you switch desktops.

Seriously the worst image viewer I've ever seen.

Someone from Microsoft, I know you are reading this, please explain to us how this makes it all the way to launch like this.

Their priority seems to be to make their "programs" "apps" so PCs are indistinguishable from cell phones. It may make business sense to them as so many of these companies are aiming to be everything to everyone, but it doesn't make user sense because if I wanted my PC to work like a phone, I wouldn't have just saved the money and stuck with my phone. They're also trying to make their apps to be social magnets to sell news stories, movies, music . . . it's very tiresome.

Same as everywhere else: some managers needed to justify a promotion.

P.S. not from MS

And all the more irritating because they had a perfectly usable image viewer which they could have used.