Microsoft announced that the Photos app Windows 11 already supports integration with iCloud Photos after being made available to users in the Insiders program. The feature should start to be deployed normally from the end of this month of November.

Dave Grochocki, senior product manager for Windows Inbox Applications, said that Microsoft knows “that many Windows customers have collections of photos and videos on their iPhones that they would like to view on their PC. This integration with iCloud Photos will make it easier for iPhone users to directly access all their precious memories in one organized place and is the next step in our ongoing efforts to make Windows 11 experience seamless.“.

Of course, the integration of iCloud in the Windows 11 Photos app is not complete because requires downloading and installing iCloud for Windows. This means that the Microsoft application does not act as a client, but as an intermediary with the official Apple client for Windows.

Apple has made changes to its business model in recent years to support it more in services. Obviously, limiting its services to users of its devices is something that would significantly reduce the number of customers, so the Cupertino giant has enabled the Apple TV web browser and is once again taking Windows app development seriously.

On the other hand, a For more than a decade, the iPhone has been Apple’s true flagship.clearly above Macs. It’s therefore not unusual to see people who prefer to use iOS on their smartphone and Windows on their PC, so Apple might be interested in making its services work on competing desktop systems.