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Microsoft Integrates Autodesk's 3D Printing Platform Spark Into Windows 10
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.
A "lean" OS an OS where you easily add/enable just the pieces you want/need, not one that comes with everything and the kitchen sink preinstalled and enabled "just in case somebody needs it". The whole point of an OS is to ease the development, installation and execution of programs in form of libraries and applications, and the only reason behind bundling and preinstalling something that's non-essential to the vast majority of users is simply to promote that application/library/framework/whatever for reasons that are based on commercial agreements between manufacturers, not on technical merit or usefulness for the end users. Are you still in the "we sell solutions, not programs" monolithic boat of the '90? The rest of the world is going faster, developing software for uses that you couldn't ever anticipate, on hardware that's not typical, and that's possbile only if your OS is a simple and reliable building block that scales well up and down and doesn't get in the way of doing unusual things.