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Microsoft Confirms It's Not Killing Off Paint After Outpouring of Support (cnbc.com)
Microsoft said late Monday that it will not be killing off its Paint app in the next update of Windows 10. It will be made available via the Windows Store for free and will not be completely removed. CNBC reports: The U.S. technology company recently released a list which labeled Paint "deprecated," meaning it was considering removing the app when the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update gets released later this year. Fans on social media decried the potential death of Paint, which has been in existence for 32 years. But Microsoft released a blog post shortly after to clarify that Paint would not be completely removed, but instead made available via the Windows Store for free. "Today, we've seen an incredible outpouring of support and nostalgia around MS Paint. If there's anything we learned, it's that after 32 years, MS Paint has a lot of fans. It's been amazing to see so much love for our trusty old app," Megan Saunders, a general manager at Microsoft, wrote in a blog post on Monday. "Amidst today's commentary around MS Paint we wanted to take this opportunity to set the record straight, clear up some confusion and share some good news: MS Paint is here to stay, it will just have a new home soon, in the Windows Store where it will be available for free."
On a netbook paint is a handy place to paste a screenshot but on a machine with any kind of capabilities it's kind of the most frustrating tool available.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Availability isn't the concern. We want it ubiquitous. Meaning that if someone has windows you know they have paint.
It's not an app, it's a program. Apps suck. MS-Paint lives forever.
If you think I voted for Trump because of this post, you're wrong. I voted for Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party. Again.
People who prefer the Windows ecosystem that traces its roots to DOS don't want to interact with a "store" to get things done. Paint has been part of the default install longer than "app stores" have even been a thing. It's like vi on Linux.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
I guess that's one way of getting people to use the app store. Its not going to work, the store is horrible.
Are Microsoft really going to keep trying to make this "app" store popular? Give it up already, this is Windows.
To be fair, for all I know it already does...
>You must reset your router before using this resource;
to free to each people of the orld .
If we complain enough,we can make them abandon Windows 10, and go back to 7.
The amount of effort in trying to get rid of a tiny program. How about improving Windows so that a single program waiting to save a file doesn't halt the shutdown process?
How can it be a system-stopping event to save a file in the era of terabyte hard disk and gigahertz processors?
Just SAVE THE FUCKING FILE then shut down!!
The plan was to stop supporting and _eventually_ drop it.
This is in line with the alarming industry trend of dropping something very stable and unchangeable (ergo, does not bring any money) in favor of something experimental and unstable that you will be able to sell to clueless buyers.
Similar to impossibility of having practically eternal products, stable software products of private industry are impossible as well.
Have you been to the grocery chains recently? Remember the hype of LED lamps? It was hard to find a good incadescent in my grocery store at one point, majority of the shelf space was covered by LEDs. Now the situation is back to the beginning: majority are incadescents, LEDs are in minority.
Welcome to the late stage capitalism
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Microsoft announced it will kill Windows an all attached sofware all together. They added that this step is immediate and irrevocable but necessary to spare PC users over the world further suffering.
sudo rm -r -f --no-preserve-root /
Give it a good three months and Paint will be quietly dropped by Microsoft, with deathly silence in response to any and all complaints.
Perhaps four months if they can find a way to jury rig some spyware into it.
Features that are removed or deprecated in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4034825/features-that-are-removed-or-deprecated-in-windows-10-fall-creators-up
Nostalgic me misses the old QBasic that came with DOS and early Win9x (I seem to recall that it went away after Win98). I taught my daughters their initial lessons in programming in QBasic. . .
The per user basis of the windows store still makes this a pain in the ass for those of us that manage images in the enterprise.
They're fucking everything else up why not this too?
I wish they would just leave Paint alone and remove all of the 3D stuff in Windows 10 Creators Update that I have no use for. It's like Microsoft is trying it's best to kill off Windows. And that's a good thing.
Now, can we get the pinball game back also?
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Microsoft pays attention to the user base for once
When they scream "stop don't change it damnit!". Haven't seen that happen before.
have changed. Now they have '100' on the label (or whatever the old actual rating) to make you think they are 100-watt bulbs, but they are only 73 or 83 watt [which is the smaller number somewhere on the packaging]. So, thanks to congress, manufactures are now required to mislead you on the label. Remember when congress required you to *not* mislabel products? I do.
Free stuff is given at the pleasure of the giver.
Microsoft wants to get you in the habit of asking. Online. Preferably logged in. Definitely viewing ads. Grateful for free stuff. Willing to spend a quid or two for new 'cutting edge' features. Looking around, considering 'buying' some more in its virtual mall.
I've heard it said that 1.5 Billion people use Windows. Even if 0.1% of these spend 30 seconds per year downloading paint (versus using a copy on disk), that's 6 man years lost. Maybe someone would waste their 30 seconds. Maybe others would spend it on a medical problem and save lives.
I don't get it - an OS is supposed to be at the beck and call of its owner. Microsoft should be making agents to obey our every intent. Even anticipate our needs and pre-empt the resources to fulfill them with no delay. This behavior forces me to conclude the OS is at Microsoft's beck and call now; that we're merely micro-serfs.
Unfortunately, They still don't seem to understand that it should be on desktops by default. I shouldn't need to go to the garbage Windows Store to have a rudimentary image editor on a machine fresh out of the box.
An appx version of Paint in the store is not ANYTHING like paint. This is another case of Microsoft doing what it wants and shoveling horseshit into the mouths of its users.
Appx apps operate in a different context and critical aspects of Paint like OLE functionality will not exist, rendering the "worthless" Paint application into a completely useless and abandoned Paint app.
But, the important aspect here is that Microsoft knows well that people still use Paint.exe extensively. Microsoft themselves have stated that 100 million people use Paint.exe daily! But, they can't force-feed ads into Paint.exe. They can however, monetize-the-ever-loving-shit out of Paint.appx and who gives a fuck if it becomes useless to you so long as they get paid again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again...
It is positively astonishing to me that people either are OK with the new subscription and ad based everything from Microsoft, or are too stupid to see where this is obviously going. Microsoft is stripping out ALL of the perpetual stuff and all control that end users or admins might have over the OS and are placing all control and revenue streams firmly within Microsoft's and ONLY Microsoft's possession.
I can finally rest easy. Yesterday was a very hard day for me. Was having a hard time letting it sink in.
I tend to rant.
After a single day's "outpouring" of support the resurrect paint but after a decade of outpouring hate for the direction Windows is going, it just keeps getting worse.
We wanted paint to stay where it is. Not added to your shitty store. Might as well have not announced anything.
The millennial that doesn't like most of the stuff designed for millennials.
Oh, nice, we get to keep Paint. This totally makes up for not keeping Windows Easy Transfer.
When someone says, "Any fool can see
Are these the same assclowns that converted Mahjong into an app that REQUIRES logging into an X-box live account to even play?
We wouldn't have Firefox 57 and the XULpocolypse if it did.
As others have noted, the issue is ubiquity. Paint is in every Windows box. Most of us never use it, but when you need it you really do - often because you need to do something quick & simple - but Your Organization does not consider your job description to include graphics so there's nothing else installed and never will be (at any price). Losing Paint (moving it to the Store, with or without nagware additions, is the same thing) will not change Your Organization's approach; it will just mean that you will need to create a ticket for some graphic artist to do whatever minor thing you needed, which will result in it not being done (no budget, priorities, etc.).
MSPAINT.EXE is 6508KB in my Win10 Home laptop; what does MS need that space for that can't be included now? Are they trying to improve their spyware components and have run out of space, even after compression, on the distribution DVD?
IrfanView with text-insert and a "paint dialog" is by far the easier tool to do quick image manipulations in or paste from the clipboard.
will they ever admit to not being able to drop support the vb6 runtime?
I don't remember the last time I ever opened paint. Any windows machine in my house or that I use gets Irfanview installed as the default image program. The only thing it is really lacking is an easier way to draw on photos... it has one, but i don't like it much.
Between Irfanview and Snagit, all my basic image and capturing needs are covered. If Irfanview had Snagit's photo markup capabilities it would be perfect.
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Some spectacularly clueless ideas coming out of big tech vendors nowadays. When it's Google, well, you figure, it *is* Google, after all. But Microsoft? King of backward compatibility and eternal availability of badly designed, insecure and abysmally performing protocols like SMB? Really? Sure systemd ruined Linux, and the Gnome Shell is now indisputably an illustration of man's inhumanity to man, but dropping Paint from Windows? Whose idea was that? Are they among the "too feeble to fail" or one of the "masters of an alternate reality universe" where business owners really want Xbox games to be marketed to their employees' Windows Professional desktops during office hours.
Anyone who has logged into Windows Store on Windows 10 has had their Windows login screwed up.
I have Photoshop installed, but when all I need to do something simple like crop an image or draw an arrow, Paint.NET is a superior middle-ground editor. Photoshop takes twice as long to start up and MS Paint is useless. Microsoft should drop Paint and include Paint.NET in the main distribution of Windows instead. It's not Photoshop, but it gets the job done. Plus, maybe Microsoft will *finally* find some incentive to optimize the loading times for .NET apps like Paint.NET and maybe some image editing tools might finally hit Outlook.
I'm using the current Codeweavers Crossover 16.2.0 to attempt an installation of Paint.NET just too look at the app. .NET Framework 4.6 and accomplishes that, but the application fails to install. The app uses the NullSoft Installer, but I'm not aware of any Linux utility that will unpack a NullSoft archive so I could manually install it in the appropriate WINE bottle.
Using a 64-bit Linux OS and installing in a Windows7 64-bit environment (what Paint.NET recommends) and WINE recognizes the need to install
Same result with a 32-bit bottle. I don't own any Windows OS.
"I believe in Karma. That means I can do bad things to people all day long and I assume they deserve it." : Dogbert
Thank you Doug Englebart for bit map display, and Bill Atkinson for MacPaint, real precursor of WindogPaint.
For linux, free and open software, try http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gpaint/ , bugfix at htthttps://www.gnu.org/software/gsrc/
Have you ever tried the full screen capture in SnippingTool? Select Full-Screen Snip, then paste it or save it. Better yet, why capture the whole screen if you are only interested in a small area of the display?
Even easier, assign a Hot Key to the Snipping Tool. Just right-click on the Snipping Tool, go to Properties, then click in the Shortcut Key field. Assign a Hot Key sequence (I used F10) to quickly start the Snipping tool.
Once you have a screen capture you can make rudimentary annotations, paste it into email, or save the whole capture as a file.
I also use the Snipping Tool as a reminder. I can capture a small section of the screen that shows a URL, or a spreadsheet cell, or a address/phone number and leave it minimized until I need that information later. Kind of like a single item post-it note.
I find the Snipping Tool does many of the things people used to use Paint for.
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I use it for screen shots. I am an old bugger who needs an easy solution. Leave it be.