Microsoft Reaches Out To Blender

dmbasso writes "Continuing its strategy to support FOSS application on the Windows platform, Microsoft mailed the Blender developers asking how they could help improve the experience of Blender users on Windows. Groklaw puts it in perspective using Steve Ballmer's own words."

Comments

Re:They don't really need Microsoft

[LetterRip]

Actually.. Microsoft doesn't do anything that nearly competes with Blender. The should just add support for OpenNURBS (which is already free anyways). MS just purchased Caligari which makes Truespace, a (low end) competitor in the 3D market. So they do in fact compete with us directly.

LetterRip

Re:Message to people who gripe about interfaces

[thtrgremlin]

Agreed, if you saying what I think you saying. People that gripe about Blenders interface are not people that know it; it is all people, imho, that took one look at the simple boxy interface and giant menus, and maybe clicked on the cube with the left mouse button to discover nothing happens, and were immediately turned off, if not outright upset. That was my reaction. Once I finally took the time to learn it (years later after seeing demo videos) other people would watch me work in Blender and would be like WHAT!?! How do you do that? and I would say It is easy, but you must at least watch the interface tutorials (youtube's super3boy tutorials are great for starters, mind you he sounds 12 years old.