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Windows 10 Is Finally Getting An Improved Screenshot Tool (theverge.com)
Today, Microsoft released Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17661 to insiders, which includes a new screenshot experience for the upcoming major update. The Verge reports: Screen Sketch, previously bundled with the Windows Ink feature of Windows 10, is now being made into a separate app that can take screenshots and provide options to annotate them. Microsoft has experimented with a variety of screen snipping tools over the years, but a new winkey + shift + S keyboard shortcut will now bring up an area select tool to snip a screenshot and share it instantly from the clipboard. The app will also trigger a notification so you can annotate the screenshot and share it. You can also replace the print screen button on a keyboard with this feature, making the button a lot more useful than today's winkey + printscreen combo.
Windows already has the ability to run Greenshot. So... thanks Microsoft?
All these AI stories are completely ridiculed by Microsoft innovative software: we had previously a new version of Paint, and now the ability to take screenshots. Wow! Microsoft, please, don't be too hard on competition.
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
Seriously?
Have you people never heard of Snipping Tool?
Bundled with Windows since at least 7.
Takes screenshots, partial screenshots, saves as PNG, allows you to draw over them, emails, puts in clipboard.
It's probably one of the best features of the default Windows installs, as sad as that is.
Wow. The screenshot tool is now an experience.
So cool.... or not.
You know, that when Don Normal and his group at Apple back in the '80s coined then term User Experience, they defined it as:
It goes beyond the user interface of a piece of software to include also how the product is packaged, sold, bought, installs; how the user manual is written (remember user manuals? ;-P ), how to get support and support is done, and then how dispose of install media and how to uninstall the software.
Please stop this nonsensical misuse of the term!
My next rant is going to be about: "Solution". Until then: Cheers!
"We mustn't be caught by surprise by our own advancing technology" -- Aldous Huxley
You're obviously not with the trend.
You forgot the intermediate steps of
vectorisation -> 3d printing -> 3d scanning -> logging the result on a blockchain -> AI interpretation of model -> rasterisation -> colour correction -> writing to cloud -> retrieving from cloud -> sharing of images on (n+1) social media accounts -> copy to clipboard
Each of which would be in a managed container.
(The sending of files to Microsoft, NSA, Google, GCHQ.... is implicit here and not called out as a set of separate actions)
Years ago I started assigning a keyboard shortcut to Snipping Tool, which allows you to do pretty much everything they are describing. Copies to clipboard, or you can save in a couple of formats. And... annotate! (at least with highlighting and lines, would be good if they added text).
Rt-click Snipping Tool icon, in start menu, Open File Location, get Properties in shortcut, define a shortcut key combo.
One other nice thing with Snipping Tool is you can define a capture delay. So if you want to screen-cap a menu option that would otherwise lose focus and disappear by hitting a key sequence, you can set Snipping Tool to fire at a set time delay so you can mouse through and get it looking like you want before the screen capture hits.
You can select the area of the screen to capture, no more capturing everything, pasting into Paint, and cropping.
This "Innovation" has been around since at least Windows 7.
Screenshots do have their place, but when trying to figure out bugs, there are a couple of things that makes them problematic:
* Can't copy text from them to paste into your search box, SQL editor, etc.
* Users only snipping what they think is important, not other on-screen info ("this field does not work!!!!one")
* Some people reduce the size of the image (for e-mailing), making the text unreadable.
* And it doesn't show steps the user took to get to the error point.
Hopefully someday someone will come up with a better app to help users and testers with bug reports... (and user training material).
For interest's sake: are there any other uses for screenshots?
Free, as in your money being freed from the confines of your account.
Follow through to the actual Microsoft post instead of the intermediate blog, and you can see what's happened. They've taken the tool and made it its own app, so with its own software update cycles etc., showing up in alt-tab...a few things. Otherwise it's not much different, but that's fine - this does seem to be an improvement to me. I mean, it's not life changing but it does make things a bit more organised.
I actually had to read everything here to realize (again) how backwards Windows is. OSX has come with Grab that dates all the way back to NeXT. So I guess we can welcome MS users to the 1990s.
The cesspool just got a check and balance.
You know people have been saying that since the late 90s, right?
"Prediction: within 10 years, Windows will be a Linux distribution." Me, 7-6-2016