Microsoft Windows Blue demo details new update features

[Mem]

The rumoured Windows 8 update codenamed Blue has all but been confirmed in a leaked video. Designed to show updates to the Fresh Paint app for Windows Blue, Microsoft's chief technical strategy officer Eric Rudder talks about Blue and his plans for it.

http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/50519/microsoft-windows-blue-update-revealed


Look like Microsoft is really pushing touch.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

Thank you, that does look very cool, esp. for artists. i hope they improve a lot of things in this release!

 

[Elixer]

Yeah, like get rid of the touchscreen crap if you don't have a touchscreen.
Don't you like just how smug that guy is, leaning back in that chair while the touchscreen fails for them...

 

[colonelciller]

there are plenty of casual painting apps out there... maybe not free, but then neither is windows 8.

Artists choose:

• Corel Painter + Wacom tablet (or Wacom Cintiq -a pressure sensitive display... but still not finger painting)
• Photoshop + Wacom tablet (or Wacom Cintiq)

check out the artwork that Painter is capable of enabling: http://www.ballisticpublishing.com/books/painter/

 

[Mem]

Yeah, like get rid of the touchscreen crap if you don't have a touchscreen.
Don't you like just how smug that guy is, leaning back in that chair while the touchscreen fails for them...

It seems touch and all in one OS is direction Microsoft are going, I've no issues with that even though I don't use touchscreen etc ,however I do hope thet don't forget desktop users like me that still use old fashioned keyboard and mouse.

 

[Zaap]

What update "features?" A finger-painting app? Seriously?

Professional artists use pens/pencils/brushes (real thing and digital equivalent) and most stopped painting with their fingers at the age of 7. Develop something that rivals a Wacom digitizer or stop with all the nonsense already.

Has anyone at Microsoft used a touch-enabled Cintiq yet? Wacom gets that of course touch has major uses- but for mimicking traditional mediums like rotating what you're working on, pinch zooming, etc. not as a substitute for a decent pressure sensitive input.

What Microsoft is showing was old news 5 years ago. It wouldn't be a big deal, except they seem convinced that their outdated ideas of touch interfaces and applications are major OS innovations.