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Microsoft Unveils Windows 10 Creators Update, Coming in Early 2017 (fortune.com)
Microsoft today announced Creators Update for Windows 10. The company said Creators Update will release with a slew of new features at no charge in early 2017. From a report on Fortune: The Windows 10 Creators Update lets users on mobile devices take three-dimensional photos by scanning an object as they walk around it. It also allows for 3D graphics in Microsoft's popular PowerPoint presentation software, and a new "Paint 3D" application lets people edit photos and other designs in three dimensions. Terry Myerson, Microsoft's executive vice president for the Windows and devices group, said the update was tailored for gamers who are increasingly interested in augmented and virtual reality experiences. "Windows 10 will be your platform for gaming glory," he said at a product launch event in New York.
Isn't that nice of them?
Why is it an OS function to take 3D pictures of things?
I want my OS to provide basic functionality and then let me decide what toys to put on top of it.
I would rather say it has a "plethora."
This isn't an OS update. It's a forcibly bundled app that I don't want.
Assuming M$ tried to get a patent on that tech, there was already an open source version of probably a previous proprietary concept that would take a set of images around an object, either requiring positional metadata, or inferring it from the object's location in the pictures, and set them up as reverse rendering points in order to create a 3d depth map and then infer the geometry of the object before creating a texture map for it.
Not sure how good it is since I didn't have the hardware to take photographs and test it at the time, but it seems worth mentioning now!
>Microsoft's exclusive vice president
Oh, you mean he's not a vice president for anyone else? Or is he a limited time offer just for me?
Every single one back through 3.1. Make them pay to play. I would pay good money for a Windows 10 machine that looked like Windows NT.
I don't want a poorly designed tiling window manager. I don't want a new start button.
An update dedicated to gamers.How appropriate. They must know that Windows has become nothing more than a game launcher for me.
My first program:
Hell Segmentation fault
I would love an actual "creators" version of Windows. One that allows disabling all unneeded apps and all possible non-essential background processes. That would actually be useful and I'd pay money for it.
And don't tell me you can tweak it yourself.... that used to be possible, but it's getting worse with every edition of Windows.
I can start my audio software with low latency, but it will reliably crap out and underflow and ruin the audio within 20 minutes every single time. It's an OS problem, without doubt. They don't even care to make it usable. This is the primary reason why more audio pros choose Apple products. Linux is a non-starter.
Only update I want to see for Win 10 removes all the "telemetry" and spyware garbage...
Or the agony of defeat!
I will save the day with a bulleted list!
-no one
-linux... they can't *give* that shit away.
Until it updates and reboots right in the middle of a match without asking you. Again.
you know, a version of windows that minimizes stored and transmitted data to people other than myself and intended recipients?
If your calendar says the year is 2010.
Indeed. Frankly, Windows 10 will not be my platform for anything. I have already made my decision; I will continue to use my Win7 systems until I can no longer keep them secure, and then I will switch to either Linux (if it is finally a viable platform for me by that point, which it isn't yet) or to Mac.
MS used to have the best developer suite in the business. Visual Studio was awesome and much easier to use than it's competition... even though compiling things in Windows was always a pain in the ass with DLL hell and whatnot.
Linux has been bundled with the basics to develop pretty much all along. If not, it's easy to go to the package manager and get KDevelop, CodeBlocks, etc... and get all the stuff you (likely) need in 3 minutes. OSX has hopped on that bandwagon years ago as well.
I'll consider using MS's offering if they make it easier than the competition. They've managed to come from behind (I'll double that entendre) before with good offerings. Lets see if they manage to this time around.
don't care.
Like my galaxy s6 already does or, like, actually mapping an object? I don't understand
The Windows 10 Creators Update lets users on mobile devices take three-dimensional photos by scanning an object as they walk around it.
Boy, and you thought picture boards had penis selfie problems now.
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
Well, if that's how you feel about it, just delete your Operating System and see how far you get with just a BIOS. That should be all the basic functionality you can handle!
Fine, just BIOS operation for you, too! No OS for you, that would be way too complex... In fact, why don't you just ditch these complex computer things and join the strictest Amish-type people you can find.
Remember that other Creator's Update, codenamed Great Deluge?
I can walk around my own penis.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
In direct competition with Twitch and YouTube, but support built in to the OS as well as integrated with other services by default like Cortana
Stupid, more stupid, what you just said. Impressive.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
I learned it from people like you.