The Creators Update represents more solid incremental improvement to Windows 10. With features such as Night Light, Microsoft is showing that it can use the new Windows 10 development and release model to react more quickly to work done by its competitors, and to put new features in front of Windows users more quickly than before. While the changes to the privacy settings won’t make everyone happy, they show that the company is also able to respond to user demands more rapidly than in the past, too.
That said, the “creators” theme feels like a stretch. The release doesn’t include everything originally planned – the People Hub, demonstrated at last year’s launch event, was pushed back – but even if that were included, it wouldn’t make the build seem any more creator-y. Some of the work, such as the VR support, is foundational rather than something people are going to run out and use. Others, such as Game Mode, are (I hope) a taste of things to come rather than a finished product.
I have the Creator’s Update running already, and it’s really not all that noticeable. General availability will be on 11 April.
Polishing a turd
Yeah – I wonder whether they support multiple monitors at different DPIs yet, or if they properly support wide gamut displays. Windows is horrendous to look at on anything wider than sRGB. These are just two of the gripes I have with Windows (so many more in the control panel, networking – etc.), but they are fairly large ones, and it’s a shame – with all the strife around OSX these days there would seem to be an opportunity for MS if they could just get their act together around some of the core competencies.
(Then again, while OSX gets a big mindshare with developers, I suppose it’s not that big a chunk for MS – even today)
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The only “creators” thing I’ve heard about it is that it contains a bunch of fixes to WSL that would cause various staples of Linux development to die with complaints about things like resource exhaustion.
It does have a lot of the APIs in place for the Hololense, and lots of pen enhancements, too, but, yeah, it is light on the “Creators” aspect.
Game mode is necessary to disable every bootup to not loose FPS in normal games. But Windows restore the registry every boot. Do I own my computer? Do they know something better than me? Why they do this?
I can look forward to having to reinstall my rsat tools… again… which will take two hours because Windows will insist they’re already installed even though Microsoft’s own updates deliberately remove them.