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Microsoft Makes a Selfie App For the iPhone (theverge.com)
New submitter Nanmillerp sends word about Microsoft Garage's newest app which aims to take the best selfies possible. The Verge reports: "Microsoft's newest app for iOS isn't a piece of productivity software. No, it's a selfie app. Unambiguously called Microsoft Selfie, the product is designed to improve photo qualities like color balance, skin tone, and lighting for the most shareable shot possible. It's a more subtle version of Lumia Selfie, Microsoft's previous self-portrait app designed for Windows phones. On a deeper level, Microsoft Selfie appears to be just one of the many ways the company is using machine learning in everyday situations, similar to the software Microsoft released back April that would guess your age based on a photo. Microsoft Selfie's app description says it takes 'age, gender, skin tone, lighting, and many other variables into account' to help alter your self-portraits with 'intelligent enhancements.'"
Just what the world needs - MOAR SELFSLEEZE Hopefully this will be the last of the stupid ideas we'll hear about this year. Maybe their first innovation of next year will also be something else they think the world needs - better cat pictures! In 3D! And MICROSOFT EDGE browser integration. That reports everything back to the mother ship because CLOUD!
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
1991 microsoft: we dominate every PC on the planet. weve crushed countless office competitors and even have a hand in CPUs. Java is a bloodbath. we crush all comers with embrace, extend, extinguish.
2015 microsoft: we layed off 26,000 employees and strike out hard, yearly, on phones and tablets. Apples profits, once laughable, now are five times ours. we lost 2.5 billion dollars in 2010. next year we lost another 700 million. The best we managed to do is put a voice assistant in windows and buy everyone even close to a television camera in the NFL a surface tablet, which is still constantly referred to as an ipad. That thing we used to not care about at all, Linux, is now the number 1 operating system and thats only taking into account cellphones. We sat idly by as one of the largest game distributors in the world rolled out almost ubiquitous support for this OS. no one uses our cloud or our appstore but make selfie apps now.
Good people go to bed earlier.
We need this because... People needed more encouragement to take the single most despised style of picture in all of human history?
And in other news, Microsoft has released a new app called "Fingernails On A Chalkboard" - Just swipe across the screen to play along with your favorite songs! And for the real connoisseurs, it comes with "styrofoam in a box" and "autotune" modes.
Honestly "Mugshot" sounds like a pretty good name for a selfie app.
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Clippy sez "Hey there, that is a 50' cliff you're backing over, and due to your signal strength, I won't be able to upload this great selfie in time"
No kidding. "Microsoft Government Facial Recognition Program" probably got stack-ranked to the bottom of name candidates for being too accurate.
Thanks to the War on Drugs, it's easier to buy meth than it is to buy cold medicine!