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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.
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.
> Windows 10 is installed on 200 million+ devices.
200+ million devices *owned by retards* tho
I'll never understand the antipathy and general shit that Outlook catches. It's the best goddamned email client on planet Earth.
No kidding. I've also used Linux for about 20 years, and I definitely know how to get what I want and need from it. I don't understand the statement above about frequent crashes, massive security lapses, and a poor UI. I experience none of these problems. I can't even remember the last crash ... it would have been years and years ago. The UI? I have choices. I don't have to use Gnome 3 (and I don't). Security? Thank you but I feel safer with open source (and the same goes for being spied on).
If the above poster has used Linux for 20 years and can't get it to work the way he wants, I suggest that the fault is not with Linux.