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Re: Microsoft Designer

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Post by bryanrasmussen »

arkitaip wrote: post #29
pjerem wrote: post #25

I don’t even understand what this is supposed to do. Looks like rebranded stable diffusion rebranded as illustrator but without features.

It's just more randomness to pad out their Microsoft 365 offerings. It's like that horrible buffet you keep visiting because it's cheap and, well, cheap.

the buffet has BBQ hot wings, they're not really great hot wings but you would have to go through a lot to get really great ones, so you take this because it damps down a craving and gives an approximation of satisfaction.

Re: Microsoft Designer

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Post by just-tom »

qbasic_forever wrote: post #22
bradhe wrote: post #20

Microsoft has an absolutely terrible track record in the creative productivity category to the point that their previous entrants fell somewhere between “toy” and “joke.” I don’t have high hopes here, personally.

I would wager MS Paint has done more to spark creativity and set people on a path to becoming digital artists than any other piece of software in history like Photoshop. I wouldn't underestimate the power of 'toy' programs.

I agree, but MS Paint did so because it was available to anyone who opened up Windows, not because it's a great piece of software.

Re: Microsoft Designer

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Post by ChuckNorris89 »

colonwqbang wrote: post #39
arkitaip wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I dunno man, Teams has only given me a slight headache this morning instead of a cluster migraine.

I was also about to make a snide remark about teams but at this point it's more tragedy than comedy.

Bashing Teams is tooo much of a low hanging fruit at this point.

Re: Microsoft Designer

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Post by ChuckNorris89 »

Anon4Now wrote: post #19
calciphus wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wait I'm genuinely curious: what's wrong with Calculator?

I use it regularly. It seems fine to me, but I do wish it had copy and paste.

> I do wish it had copy and paste

Have you tried Ctrl + C/V in calculator? Or righ-clicking on the numbers and seeing the Copy and Paste options that pop up?

It definitely does have copy and paste. I double checked it right now.

Re: Microsoft Designer

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Post by ly3xqhl8g9 »

Kwpolska wrote: post #38
ly3xqhl8g9 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Windows 11 calculator is creating many problems such as the app surprisingly crashes, opens then immediately closes, or not performs as expected. Some people complain that the built-in Microsoft Store application does not work after they have received an update." [1] The fact that there are 14 ways to fix the Calculator app listed in this article, including even "Disable Windows Firewall temporarily", is simply beyo…

The blog post you linked does not look very trustworthy. Many of these steps are generic Windows troubleshooting steps, with some clearly dumb ones thrown in. There are tons of sites that produce troubleshooting articles like this one for just about anything in Windows (although one of the steps is usually to use some product they're advertising). Googling for "windows 11 calculator crashing reddit" brings a total of…

It was indeed the second link I clicked after a summary search. Personally, I have not used the Windows Calculator app in a decade or so, but I blame Microsoft for other thousands of hours of pointless eye strain trying to fix and get work done through their applications. Still, I don't think one is unreasonable to expect that a calculator app should never crash after an update or be a nuisance if it's made by a 1.89 trillion USD market cap company with over 100,000 software engineers on payroll and aspirations to open the new world of statistically learned agents.

Nevertheless, as pointed out by Greg Kroah-Hartman and others, our stack is extremely feeble, so it becomes reasonable to expect the unreasonable from time to time, even with somewhat trivial applications.

Re: Microsoft Designer

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Post by hit8run »

hiisukun wrote: post #48

I feel a deep sadness, a sympathy, or sense of loss for the countless artists who have toiled to produce beautiful works over the decades (centuries?), just for them to be approximated by a single click as a vector mashup in an AI generative search space. And without so much as a by your leave. I'm not saying it's logical to be against AI image generation, but definitely have a feeling that something has gone wrong h…

I feel the same. Especially this shitty company that has proved over decades now that they are up to no good.

Re: Microsoft Designer

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Post by rg111 »

newaccount74 wrote: post #47
siva7 wrote: post #40

So graphic designers will be out of jobs because of Microsoft?

There are a million newsletters and other mailings sent out by random employees without any formal education in design. The kind of people who used Comic Sans and Word Art, if you still remember. Companies that send out professionally designed mailings won't start sending half-assed AI generated stuff.

Absolutely.

People who already pay professional artists will not stop paying them because of this.

This kind of products will create many entrants into the design space.

People who still haven't paid a designer/artist yet, many of whom weren’t ever going to- will form the stark majority of users of this product.

This is something very simple that many people refuse to understand.

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