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Microsoft To Add Flux Like Night Mode In Windows 10, Rendering 3rd-Party App's Existence Useless (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader writes: With suggestions that bluish lights disrupt our sleep, software that shifts screen white balance towards the red end of the spectrum in the evening -- cutting back that potentially sleep-disrupting light -- has gained quite a following. f.lux is the big name here with many people enjoying its gradual color temperature shifts. Apple recently built a color shifting feature into iOS, under the name Night Shift, and there are now signs that Microsoft is doing the same in Windows 10. Twitter user tfwboredom has been poking around the latest Windows insider build and found hints that the operating system will soon have a "blue light reduction" mode. Similarly to f.lux, this will automatically reduce the color temperature in the evenings as the sun sets and increase it in the mornings when the sun rises. Signs are that the feature will have a quick access button in the Action Center when it is eventually enabled.The feature is expected to arrive with Redstone, which is Windows 10's next major update expected to arrive next year.
I have blocked the anniversary update for now...too many glitches. I've been using f.lux for years, without one hiccup.
Dear harvard.edu,
I absolutely love it when I go to your website and before I can do anything, you shove a popup in my face! Thank you so much for that!
It's just another attempt by Microsoft to make us all see Windows 10 through rose-colored glass(es).
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
That is the general risk of making 3rd party apps/hacks to the system.
If it is a good idea, or at least popular chances are the OS will do this natively.
We had this for a while (sometimes via dubious methods) Like with DoubleSpace in DOS that compressed the drives.
Or extended memory management in DOS.
More recently Dashboard features on the desktop to replace other 3rd party tools that did the same things.
If you want to make a living making such tools you better pattent the hell out of it. Otherwise the OS Company will copy the idea and implement it in the next version.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
This is a good place to start:
http://www.health.harvard.edu/...
Many brain studies have been made proving that it is the mechanism for humans to wake up when the sun comes out. We are simply wired that way.
It can also control Hue lights. Or in theory, any other smart lights you've gatewayed through a Hue emulator. If anyone has actually done that, I'd be interested in seeing what you used. Most of the hue emulators are Java and I don't want to use that.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Do I get to turn that feature off or is the color in Windows going to change no matter what I'd prefer?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Meanwhile there's other cases where they duplicated the basic functionality of a 3rd party feature, but didn't prevent people from running better third party features.
Versions since XP have had basic ZIP support, and CD Burning support.
Windows 7 added a better screen capture tool
Windows 8 let you mount and burn ISOs
I don't think they're going to extinguish by duplicating a f.lux. It's by no means a market driver.