So .. what? It always struck my as a toy program (kind of like how Notepad seems like a toy text editor).
When was the last time you could get anything done with MS Paint?
MS Paint is here to stay
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Re: MS Paint is here to stay
#52Re: MS Paint is here to stay
#53What is, and has been great about MS Paint is that no matter what Windows machine I have been on, I know that I have had it available. No matter if it's my old grandma's computer, if I have needed to quickly do something simple with an image, MS Paint has always been there for me. Now that will no longer be the case. If I have to download and install it on the computer before I use it, then what is the point? It will…
I think it's a good thing that Microsoft is reducing the size of their base OS and decoupling many of the apps from the Windows release cycle. It definitely does, however, feel like the end of a era.
They're replacing it with "Paint 3D" though, which comes with huge 3D models of smilies built-in. The net result is more bloat, not less.
Re: MS Paint is here to stay
#54One more thing pushing me to interface with an online store. One less reason for picking Windows for my "toolbench" computer. The paranoid in me is expecting there to be a catch to this new paint application. Ads? DLC?
If you don't trust Microsoft and it's Store, then you shouldn't use Windows in the first place.
One can have cynical thoughts about their future plans but still have a certain degree of trust in more important aspects of the OS.
Re: MS Paint is here to stay
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Centralised Group Policy Objects (GPOs) on the Windows Domain, can block any EXE that's on the machine, or a customised deployment image of Windows 10 can even be configured to not installed any of the built in applications. So yes, no snipping tool on a deployed installation of Windows 10 is a real scenario. Also, GPOs can (and do) disable the Windows Store. So moving MSPaint to the Windows Store does not make as av…
If a machine is blocking built-in applications, why would it have MSPaint available? Or is it an application that cannot be blocked, which would be a security vulnerability?
I spent 10 years doing corporate desktop deployments of Windows. You'd be surprised at the crazy requests from the business regarding what they did and didn't want pre-installed.
Re: MS Paint is here to stay
#56So .. what? It always struck my as a toy program (kind of like how Notepad seems like a toy text editor). When was the last time you could get anything done with MS Paint?
I think most people have at least once used MS paint. If that's not an indication that it's a useful program, then I don't know what is.
Re: MS Paint is here to stay
#57So .. what? It always struck my as a toy program (kind of like how Notepad seems like a toy text editor). When was the last time you could get anything done with MS Paint?
Uh, every single time I wanted to quickly circle something in a screenshot? Every time I wanted to quickly crop an image? Every time I wanted to draw a diagram?
MS Paint has been there for me through thick and thin.
Yeah, I'm not about to become a graphic artist with it, but what does that have to do with anything?
And what's more, I don't know what you're on about with Notepad. I've taken more notes in Notepad than any other program, no contest. "Toy"? Is a butterknife a toy because all it does is spread butter?
Re: MS Paint is here to stay
#58> The original art app isn’t going anywhere – except to the Windows Store for free! Does it mean that from now on we would have to download it?
I think so. That also means that for shared or strictly managed computers, it won't be installed or installable. No more screenshots on the hospital PC, then.
At the same time they're removing Paint they're bundling Paint 3D which does the same and more.
Re: MS Paint is here to stay
#59What is, and has been great about MS Paint is that no matter what Windows machine I have been on, I know that I have had it available. No matter if it's my old grandma's computer, if I have needed to quickly do something simple with an image, MS Paint has always been there for me. Now that will no longer be the case. If I have to download and install it on the computer before I use it, then what is the point? It will…
I think it's a good thing that Microsoft is reducing the size of their base OS and decoupling many of the apps from the Windows release cycle. It definitely does, however, feel like the end of a era.
Hopefully they continue by removing:
Candy Crush, "Get Office", Minecraft, ... and all other trash that gets installed by default.
Re: MS Paint is here to stay
#60Honestly the biggest takeaway from this was that they were still developing mspaint.