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Microsoft Integrates Autodesk's 3D Printing Platform Spark Into Windows 10

Posted by timothy on from the try-explaining-that-to-grandma dept.

An anonymous reader writes: At Microsoft's Build 2015 developer conference today, Steve Guggenheimer, Microsoft vice president of developer and platform evangelism, announced new 3D printing features in Windows 10. More specifically, Autodesk Spark is being integrated into Microsoft's latest and greatest operating system. Spark is a platform for building 3D printing software, hardware, materials, and services. Adding it to Windows 10 is a big win for Autodesk.

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  1. MORE BLOAT! by krelvin · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Just what you need more stuff to go wrong especially if you never plan on using it. A lean OS makes more sense than an over bloated one.

    1. Re:MORE BLOAT! by Dutch+Gun · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Yes, because we certainly don't want our PCs to actually do new and interesting things, right? What's "bloat" to you is a "feature" to someone else. And when you have over a billion people using PCs, your OS has to support a lot of different features.

      Do you know what a "lean" OS is? It's an OS that nobody actually uses because it doesn't have the features they want.

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    2. Re:MORE BLOAT! by bondsbw · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Not sure about the desktop side of things, but Microsoft is building a Windows "Nano Server" edition that is about as slim as it can get. The way I understand, their goal is to release this version with only a PowerShell remote interface and the ability to host ASP.NET, but eventually they'll allow the user to layer on additional optional components to build a system with more features.

      I'd love if they did that for the desktop...

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  2. Re:Yay! More Crapware for 99% of Users! by jedidiah · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Most users don't even use their regular 2D printers in any sort of creative or interesting way.

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  3. Re:The Power of Standards by Dutch+Gun · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Please. The entire OS is still smaller than a single Netflix HD movie. And disk space costs pennies per GIGABYTE. The entire feature will probably add a few dozen megabytes to the OS at *most*, which translates into a couple of extra seconds of downloading and about a tenth of a penny worth of disk space.

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