Microsoft adds more AI to Photos in Windows 10 and 11
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2024/02/23/microsoft_adds_more_ai_to_windows/
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Using AI to tweak photos has long been a thing. Pixel phone and Google One users have had access to the [1]Magic Eraser tool since 2023, and it was therefore inevitable that Microsoft would build on the existing Spot Fix tool with [2]Generative erase .
It's a neat tool, although it is up against some stiff competition from mobile phones, which are, let's face it, usually the source of the images that need editing.
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More interesting, however, is Microsoft's decision to roll out all of the AI editing features that were previously the domain of Windows 11 into Windows 10. Windows 11 for Arm64 devices will also get the updates, which include Blur background, Remove and Replace background, and Generative erase.
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Microsoft has been foisting AI functionality onto Windows 10 despite the disappearing shelf life of the operating system for a few months now. In November 2023, the company [6]announced the arrival of Copilot on the platform while confirming that 2025 remained the end of the line for Windows 10.
Microsoft also recently crammed AI functionality into the veteran Paint application in the form of [7]Paint Cocreator , a function that accepts text and then generates an image accordingly using the Azure DALL-E service. It does, however, require a Microsoft account and operates on a credit-based system, with one credit used per image.
[8]Are you ready to back up your AI chatbot's promises? You'd better be
[9]Meta seeks ASIC designers for ML accelerators and datacenter SoCs
[10]Windows 11 users herded toward 23H2 via automatic upgrade
[11]Google sends Gemini AI back to engineering to adjust its White balance
Microsoft will likely continue adding more AI-infused functionality to its operating system. [12]Copilot gained access to some additional settings this week, and [13]Notepad was recently updated with AI functions.
While Copilot does not have its tentacles as deeply embedded in Windows 10 as Windows 11, it is not hard to imagine more AI tools turning up in the former operating system via application updates from the Microsoft store.
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The Photos app update will roll out to all Windows Insiders on all channels. Considering Microsoft's determination to be a leader in the AI field, the arrival of an AI tool that has long been present on rival platforms will come as a relief to the faithful, even if Windows 10 users would probably have preferred a few more months of support than yet more AI functionality on their desktop. ®
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[1] https://blog.google/products/photos/magic-eraser-android-ios-google-one/
[2] https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2024/02/22/windows-photos-gets-generative-erase-and-recent-ai-editing-features-now-available-on-arm64-devices-and-windows-10/
[3] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_software/aiml&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=2&c=2ZdjPNs0SVtuT7XcQwnX6wQAAAQs&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D2%26raptor%3Dcondor%26pos%3Dtop%26test%3D0
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[5] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_software/aiml&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=3&c=33ZdjPNs0SVtuT7XcQwnX6wQAAAQs&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0
[6] https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/17/microsoft_to_bring_copilot_to/
[7] https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/use-paint-cocreator-to-generate-ai-art-107a2b3a-62ea-41f5-a638-7bc6e6ea718f
[8] https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/23/opinion_column/
[9] https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/23/meta_asic_design_jobs/
[10] https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/21/windows_11_23h2_upgrade/
[11] https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/23/google_suspends_gemini/
[12] https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/22/microsoft_extends_copilot_in_windows/
[13] https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/09/copilot_notepad/
[14] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_software/aiml&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=4&c=44ZdjPNs0SVtuT7XcQwnX6wQAAAQs&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0
[15] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
Re: Probably true, with caveats
Yes, because there's nothing in Windows 11 that couldn't be put in the previous version, except that Borkzilla needs to be seen as "moving forward", even after it loudly stated that Window 1 0 would be the last version and there never would be the need for another one.
Who asked for all this?
or is it a case of
We are Microsoft and we can do as we effing well like just because we can. If it screws your workflow up then... tough. Get with the program.
As someone who gave MS the finger years ago, I'm seeing more and more people calling time on Windows for personal use.
Re: Who asked for all this?
That's weird, I never gave Microsoft the finger and I'm seeing more and more people using Windows for personal use.
Maybe an AC spouting some bollocks about a trend is about as useful to you as it is to me?
Re: Who asked for all this?
as someone who said 'so long and it has not been nice knowing you' to MS for personal use in 2009, and spent until the end of 2016 writing software for Windows Server Systems, I want to support the AC who made the original post.
All my family are now mac users. In early 2015, I gave them an ultimatum. I said that if they wanted my IT support for free then they'd have to ditch windows. Windows 8 was according to MS, the Future. W10 corrected some of the lunacy but not enough. The funny thing is that now I get only about 20% of the support calls that I had when they were on windows.
I use a MacBook pro (bought used) as my main device plus a variety of Linux systems.
At the camera club that I go to, most of those who are active members are also Mac users.
Many have resisted the high pressure sales at places line Currys to buy a windows system. Now they all buy (if buying new) direct from apple.
This hell for leather race to put so called AI into everything is a marketing droids dream. It ain't proper AI for starters but that is a different story. Most people can't see the need for AI in everything or in my case there is no need for AI at all apart from creating some artwork for my novels.
Re: Who asked for all this?
MS marketing.
By putting AI capabilities into W10, it is clear this is an attempt to encourages to use functionality that will cause their W10 platform to appear to run slow and thus encourage them to upgrade to W11.
Trouble is with the low system performance specification for W11, we can expect Joe Public to go out and buy a system who’s actual performance isn’t dissimilar to the one they run W10 on…
They'd better work
to clean up the mess they created with the update resulting in 0x80070643 error. How about that, Microsoft ?
Re: MS update
is something that should have been taken out the back and put out of its misery years ago.
"Windows Insiders cannot get enough of AI"
Obviously. Windows Insiders are the fanboys. They are biologically incapable of refusing anything Redmond does and critical thinking is not in their DNA.
So, Redmond says AI ? Yes ! They want it ! And Redmond thinks everyone wants it.
And, cherry on top, Redmond will bestow that upon the lowly Windows 1 0 users that it will shortly be cut off from everything else. Oh ! How generous !
So, I'm guessing that all the required updates to that "AI" bullshit will also be shitting their way down to the retired version, even after the cutoff date, right ?
Because you can't get away from "AI" these days, now can you ?
Probably true, with caveats
"Windows 10 users would probably have preferred a few more months of support than yet more AI functionality on their desktop."
Probably quite true. But I'm sure the AI enhancement was initially created for Win11 but rolling the same app out to Win10 is as easy as 'flipping a switch', so that's what was done.