Is this the return of or a variation of Microsoft Silverlight - https://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/
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#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
> "Disable Windows Firewall temporarily" I can only presume this is because Microsoft records and sends your calculator inputs to themselves. Windows is just one gigantic spyware operation. So glad I can run 99% of my daily ops on Linux
The site is a spam blog site written purely for SEO and has very little to do with the actual calculator app or offering actually useful advice. It's basically just a copy-paste text dump of every generic trouble shooting tip someone could find on the internet.
Here is a link [1] from the Microsoft forum with an advice to
...right click on Windows PowerShell and select Run as administrator.
Then type following command and press Enter key:
Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers -Name Microsoft.WindowsCalculator | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml" -Verbose}
[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/954577/c...
Re: Microsoft Designer
#83yes but what is it? is it a take on canva + dale-2?
for a startup 'join the waitlist' makes sense - but here i don't see why, or even what for, it's unclear to me.
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#84Is this the return of or a variation of Microsoft Silverlight - https://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/
A man can dream!
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#85I 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.
Post-Ballmer Microsoft is not so bad.
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#86I 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…
What artists? They will just move to physical art pieces and charge more for that once commissioned to do that. This only affects digital artists; not those who do physical art, sculptures and hard back paintings.
HN only tells me that almost none of you have even visited a modern art museum.
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#87Is this the return of or a variation of Microsoft Silverlight - https://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/
I think Silverlight was trying to compete with Flash. This Designer product seems very different - it seems to be an attempt at image generation and integration into a desktop publishing application.
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#88I joined the waitlist and got a confirmation email saying "Pretty soon, you’ll be creating stunning designs in a flash" ;)
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#89Many snarky comments here because, Microsoft + AI. Maybe, but I don't think this is looking to replace stable diffusion or DALL-E. This is going after Canva and if it gets bundled into your existing 365 subscription it can be a compelling offer for millions of SMEs and consumers on that stack already (especially if it integrates well with Word/Outlook/etc).
I wonder if they are going after Canva or Figma. Feels like once you hit a certain revenue threshold, all the GAFAM/GAMMA are putting effort to put you down. That’s capitalism 101, but in 50 years from now, it might be really hard to start a software company. GAMMA would have eaten just about everything.
This definitely feels like Canva / Adobe Express (used to be Spark), the examples they show in the video feel like they want you to use it for social media posts.
Difference I can spot is that Canva / Adobe Express charge $1 for a human-made premium asset (while offering a pretty good free selection), while Microsoft charges for AI-generated assets (notice "remove watermark" at 00:24).
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#90I 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 was in the "Alte Pinoteke" in Munich, Germany, on Sunday. It is a fabulous gallery full of huge and old master paintings. There was a certain 4 frame series with each frame about 5m long by 3m high. Each was an architectural study of Rome with each being from a different view direction. What struck me was the text written below the paintings which indicated that the artist, after *3 years of work*, had been quoted…
Interesting example. Do you remember the name of the 4 frame series of paintings of Rome?