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Windows 10 v1709 AMA - Why has Creators Update Fall treated creators so badly?
I had to sign up to the Insider's program to get a newer build. It seems that from build 17xxx on they added a Registry key that can revert the pen behavior to Legacy. You have to add the key manually.
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Pen]
"LegacyPenInteractionModel"=dword:00000001
I think the whole thing is a big mistake that will force another step back for creative Surface users.
An active pen can be a powerful tool for creative people. I realized that years ago, and my first notebook was a tc4200 Tablet pc which didn't even have touch, and that is before iPads and tablets.
Ultimately the tablet pcs failed Creators to favor business users, for which the pen is just a fancy, cool and eventually disposable accessory, but of course they got the money and they got the numbers, so they were a far better target than artists. The Tablet Pc line eventually died, and reincarnated years later as the Surface. And the same mistakes came back.
The potential of the Surface line to become the ultimate creator's machine is brilliant, but the facts have proven otherwise. Microsoft seems to be always looking for ways to make creative tasks harder to favor people that just need an expensive internet browser.
Most people don't draw, scribble, paint, compose music, design, lay out, edit video, animate. Most people are not ”creators” and there's nothing wrong about that. What is wrong is to give a forced update the appealing name of Fall Creators Update when there's nothing there to favor creative users. FCU is meant to make common users feel creative, and creators feel miserable.
It's a trap.
"LegacyPenInteractionModel"=dword:00000001
Didn't work for me. Same tablet behavior with my Wacom Intuos Pen.