Windows Weekly 511: Yammer Yam Jam

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• Rob_Wade

  30 March, 2017 - 4:38 pm

  <p>Some VERY good points about the Creators Update, regarding the better-fitting "Gamers Update" idea. While the increased emphasis on inking capability would qualify as "creative", and producing broadcasts (of a sort) would be as well, it all really does seem to be gaming-centric. The Xbox One update truly does spit in the face of those who do not game on the Xbox. And, while I'm a PC-only gamer, I have never found the need to utilize the "switch" in Windows 10 that puts it in gaming mode. My machine performs perfectly well without it. I do a moderate amount of photo/art work digitally, mostly to support some website updates or artwork for a theatrical production I might be working on, but not to the level of Photoshop (mostly original Paint and Expressions Designer 4). I produce a video netcast, but I have mostly outboard hardware to support that (mixer, mics, webcams) and use XSplit Broadcaster, which is more powerful and flexible than Beam software. I also produce music for church and local theater, which also uses most of the same outboard hardware, and I use Sonar X2 to do the heavy lifting there. I suppose having that Music Maker would have been cool–and would have helped support the idea this really was a Creators Update. But, all told, there really is nothing that is part of the update that helped me out creatively besides the inking.</p>

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• Chris Blair

  31 March, 2017 - 12:44 am

  <p>Respectfully, here's an alternate perspective. Neither Paul nor Mary Jo use a pen with their PC/tablet. As a result, Paul is hoping that MS offers a Surface Book in a traditional clamshell form factor&nbsp;and Mary Jo&nbsp;does not see&nbsp;Surface Studio as a new PC category. In contrast,&nbsp;I use my&nbsp;portable PC (a Surface Pro 3) as both a traditional laptop (keyboard + trackpad) for writing, and as a tablet (pen and touchscreen) for taking hand-written&nbsp;notes, sketching new product ideas, or&nbsp;drafting equations. So I can't imagine a Surface Book that does not support pen users in the innovative and so far unique way that it does.&nbsp;And&nbsp;I do&nbsp;see Surface Studio as at a new product category, a new "type" of all-in-one,&nbsp;because in addition to keyboard/trackpad&nbsp;users it&nbsp;supports pen/touchscreen users in an innovative way. I therefore think that many artists, architects,&nbsp;product designers, and even&nbsp;engineers/scientists and other PC users&nbsp;who, in addition to keyboarding and "trackpadding," want the ability&nbsp;to interact with their art/sketches/equations/interactive models/designs using a touch screen or pen would (if they have the cash!) prefer Surface Studio over traditional all-in-ones.&nbsp;More broadly, while it may be relatively small,&nbsp;but I'm sure that all Surface models offered so far have&nbsp;targeted this market segment.</p>

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