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Microsoft Announces Windows 10 Build 14328 With Windows Ink, New UI (theverge.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Windows Ink is one of the many new features rolling out to beta testers as part of Windows 10 Build 14328. The build includes the new Windows Ink Workspace, providing access to new and improved sticky notes, a sketchpad, and a new screen sketch feature. There's also a new digital ruler you can use to create shapes and draw objects freely. The UI of the Start menu and Start Screen have also been tweaked. The most used apps list and all apps UI have been merged into a single view, creating a less cluttered Start menu. Microsoft also moved power, settings, and file explorer shortcuts so they're always visible. You can now bring back the fullscreen all apps list in the Start Screen, and you can toggle between the all apps view and your regular pinned apps. If you want things to feel less like a desktop PC, you can auto-hide the taskbar in tablet mode. Microsoft has detailed all of the new features found in Build 14328 in their blog post.
Don't use PCs much anymore and my addiction to Windows is a distant memory of wasting half of every day doing battle with undocumented behavior and constantly having to reboot to install/uninstall/update/repair stuff.
I have been using Windows 10 at home for a while and I really like it.
Well, I guess all that telemetry data has paid off!
So, what you're telling me is that Windows now includes Microsoft Paint. It's almost as though it were any previous version of Windows.
(Actually there isn't anything under the Sun, as the Sun is the lowest point in the Solar System.)
The longer and longer we see so little real progress from Wayland, the farther and farther back it falls. Regardless of your opinion about Windows and Microsoft, here we're seeing a great example of innovation. This Windows Ink functionality allows people to do something they couldn't do before. But Wayland? It's still struggling to even be minimally usable, from what I've seen of it. How the heck is it supposed to compete with the windowing systems of Windows and OS X, or even X11, if it's barely usable after so many years of effort? At this point I think we might as well just consider Wayland a dead project, and the open source community should shift its effort to Mir. Mir isn't doing all that great, either, but at least it's showing more promise than Wayland is.
Like usual. Just never ever dare compare the thing to anything but windows.
with a stylus since the old Fujitsu $3,500+ laptops that converted to a tablet running XP about ten years ago. Does this really help anyone?
Is there an official option to turn off all Telemetry yet?
WOW! It's really like some <1Mb freeware I had years ago
I've been a Linux user for about 2 decades now, and I've never been more disappointed with it than I am today.
Linux used to kick the living shit out of Windows. Linux didn't crash several times a day. Linux didn't suffer from numerous serious security problems. Linux offered more advanced filesystems and other functionality. Linux provided a better experience, with more choice.
But I fear that those days are now long gone. Since Debian started using systemd, I've experienced a number of problems caused by it. There have been several incidents where I've done routine updates, and rebooted due to the kernel being updated, only to have the boot process break thanks to problems with systemd.
The Linux desktop experience is awful. GNOME 3 is atrocious in every way. Unity is too dumbed down. KDE is too bloated. Xfce has kind of stagnated. Hell, I still have trouble getting my video drivers to work reliably at times!
I recently bought a Surface Pro 4 for my wife, and she thinks it's absolutely great. I've started using it now and then, too, and I'm loving it. I can't believe how much better it is than Linux is today. It boots each and every single time I've chosen to reboot it. The software works flawlessly with the hardware. The Windows 10 desktop environment isn't great, but I'd much rather use it than GNOME 3 or Unity. The stability is great.
I'm now thinking of getting myself a Surface Pro when my current computer dies. I never thought I'd say this, but I don't feel like I'm wasting my time when I'm using Windows 10. I do feel like I'm wasting my time when I use modern Linux distros, especially with how fragile they've become, and how terribly the UIs have devolved.
And, no, I'm not "shilling" for Microsoft. I'm not getting paid for this comment expressing my opinion. But if you know whom I should contact to get paid, please let me know!
Microsoft (finally) has a clear direction. Sometimes open source does as well, but when projects become "everyone do what you think might be fun to do" it ends in chaos with each developer pulling in a different direction. That's what is taking down Linux: many people want to contribute what is interesting to them, but few want to do the nitty-gritty work toward a tangible goal.
Going from Win8 to Win10 meant I needed to find out where Microsoft moved a bunch of stuff I used. Now they're moving it all around again.
I sure hope it's an easier search, but I'm kinda annoyed that I spend a month or two getting used to where Win10 stuffed commonly used things, now I get to spend who knows how much time figuring out where they should have put it in the first place.
Wake me up when they remove all of the telemetry and spying crap. Maybe then I'll be interested. But I doubt it.
Just so I understand Microsoft has a full blown remote access trojan baked into their goddamn operating system enabled by default to exfiltrate whatever MS feels like from you without your permission or knowledge.
https://technet.microsoft.com/...
They force updates and collect data from you without any ability to opt out but hey at least you can now doodle all over your screens.
Thank god we are starting to see a real uptick in people bailing on MS. They deserve nothing less than bankruptcy.
Can file explorer handle long file paths that it itself can create?
Windows 11 for that then?!
FFS
Hello,
Thank you for your email. Please find the requested information attached.
Best Regards,
Microsoft Privacy
Sounds good so far. Hmm. The attachment is a Word Document which contains screenshots of the type of data they collect but not the data itself. Now keep in mind, I have disabled every single privacy option on this Windows 10 install and the events (1.2 Million of them!) are only for a 6 day period on a minimally used machine.
I come here for the love
What the fuck - I'm gonna have to shut off more shit on Windows 10? Really?
Back in the day, it was theoretically possible to download more RAM, if downloading a compressing virtual memory manager counts.
You can disable the Win10 telemetry with the same menu options that you can disable Apple's similar telemetry
Only in the Enterprise version. Otherwise, Microsoft can see "basic" telemetry, which includes all applications and device drivers installed on your computer. Some of these applications and device drivers might incriminate you under anti-circumvention law.
Some of the crap that Outlook catches is related to its habit of encouraging top posting. This refers to a reply at the top of an e-mail, with the original quoted in its entirety at the bottom, rather than the older practice of replying below the relevant sentence.
Wow. Just wow. I would have thought Windows 8 would have taught them something. Crazy and stupid at the same time.
Look, you Microsoft idiots, I DON'T WANT TO LEARN A NEW INTERFACE UNLESS IT'S A VERY VISIBLE IMPROVEMENT IN PRODUCTIVITY!
And yes, slashdot, I am yelling. Microsoft constantly pisses me off.
Free Martian Whores!
Yep and tons of companies are switching to alternatives. Microsoft is losing it's grip fast.
Reality bites.
It is not an easy time to be in the tech business, even Google would admit to that. But Microsoft remains strong where it has always been strong.
Microsoft currently has three reporting segments: Productivity and Business Processes (covering Office, Exchange, SharePoint, Skype, and Dynamics), Intelligent Cloud (including Azure, Windows Server, SQL Server, Visual Studio, and Enterprise Services), and More Personal Computing (covering Windows, hardware, and Xbox, as well as search and advertising).
Productivity and Business Processes revenue was $6.5 billion, up 1 percent year-on-year, with operating income of $3.0 billion, down 7 percent. Gross margin also fell 4 percent. A large part of this drop was due to the strong dollar; in constant currency, revenue was up 6 percent and gross margin up 1 percent. The quarter was marked by an unusually strong performance from Office consumer products and cloud services; after many quarters of large year-on-year declines...in the most recent quarter Office consumer revenue was up by 3 percent (6 percent constant currency). Office commercial revenue was unchanged (up 7 percent in constant currency).
Both commercial and consumer Office 365 offerings appear to be doing well. Commercial seats are up 57 percent year-on-year. Consumer subscriptions have nearly doubled, from 12.4 million to 22.2 million. The Dynamics range also continues to grow strongly, with revenue up 4 percent (9 percent constant currency).
Intelligent Cloud revenue was up 3 percent to $6.1 billion (up 8 percent in constant currency), but operating income was sharply down by 14 percent to $2.2 billion. Server product and cloud service revenue was unchanged (though up 3 percent constant currency). Enterprise Services revenue was up 11 percent (15 percent constant currency). Among server products, the company saw gains in subscription revenue offset by declines in transactional purchases. Azure revenue was up 120 percent (constant currency), with Azure compute and SQL usage doubling year-over-year,
Personal Computing revenue was $9.5 billion, up 1 percent (3 percent constant currency), and operating income was also up 57 percent to $1.7 billion. As with Office, the Windows figures showed surprising strength in consumer markets: Windows OEM non-Pro revenue was up 15 percent year-on-year, outpacing the consumer PC market, driven by a higher volume of premium device sales. .
Microsoft's $20.5B quarter: Office up, Surface up, cloud booming
I wonder how long it'll take before that's exploited...
Don't tell me to get a life. I'm a gamer; I have LOTS of lives!