MS Paint is here to stay • Hacker News Board

Re: MS Paint is here to stay

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Post by JoBrad » Tue, Jul 25, 2017, 6:51 AM UTC

SwellJoe wrote: post #64

I just want to take a moment to rant about what an awful user experience Paint 3D was for me. I was using Windows for a short while because graphics under Linux weren't working well (GPU was new at the time, it took a couple of months for it to become reliable enough to use as a daily driver under Linux), and installed the Creator's update, which setup Paint 3D as the default program for every image file it could rec…

I think most people would say the same for MSPaint, too. It's why I use Paint.NET, which is simple to use but also has a lot of great features.

Re: MS Paint is here to stay

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Post by OkGoDoIt » Tue, Jul 25, 2017, 6:51 AM UTC

opdahl wrote: post #11

What 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…

Additionally you can't download apps off the windows store unless you sign up for /into a Microsoft account, which is a much bigger pain than simply downloading the first app you find searching on Google. Also my corporate windows 10 laptop has the entire window store and modern app infrastructure disabled, meaning I would not be able to access MS Paint.

Re: MS Paint is here to stay

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Post by OkGoDoIt » Tue, Jul 25, 2017, 6:51 AM UTC

opdahl wrote: post #11

What 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…

Additionally you can't download apps off the windows store unless you sign up for /into a Microsoft account, which is a much bigger pain than simply downloading the first app you find searching on Google. Also my corporate windows 10 laptop has the entire window store and modern app infrastructure disabled, meaning I would not be able to access MS Paint.

Re: MS Paint is here to stay

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Post by taspeotis » Tue, Jul 25, 2017, 6:52 AM UTC

OkGoDoIt wrote: post #72

opdahl wrote: post #11

What 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…

Additionally you can't download apps off the windows store unless you sign up for /into a Microsoft account, which is a much bigger pain than simply downloading the first app you find searching on Google. Also my corporate windows 10 laptop has the entire window store and modern app infrastructure disabled, meaning I would not be able to access MS Paint.

I have downloaded free apps from the Windows Store without an account twice in the past month.

These are both "desktop bridge" applications and not UWP apps so perhaps that is the difference. They were both free.

I was preparing to sign in after clicking "Get" but ... it just worked.

Re: MS Paint is here to stay

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Post by JoBrad » Tue, Jul 25, 2017, 6:54 AM UTC

juststeve wrote: post #24

Waterluvian wrote: post #3

One 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?

i'm guessing there will be a new EULA to accept prior to downloading it from the store.

Why? There isn't for the other apps they have on there.

Re: MS Paint is here to stay

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Post by skrebbel » Tue, Jul 25, 2017, 6:57 AM UTC

OkGoDoIt wrote: post #72

opdahl wrote: post #11

What 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…

Additionally you can't download apps off the windows store unless you sign up for /into a Microsoft account, which is a much bigger pain than simply downloading the first app you find searching on Google. Also my corporate windows 10 laptop has the entire window store and modern app infrastructure disabled, meaning I would not be able to access MS Paint.

> Also my corporate windows 10 laptop has the entire window store and modern app infrastructure disabled

Wow that's... What?

For all its warts, the Windows Store is a secure app delivery platform. Doesn't disabling it merely encourage downloading zipped executables from sleazy unencrypted websites?

Re: MS Paint is here to stay

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Post by pvdebbe » Tue, Jul 25, 2017, 6:58 AM UTC

vxNsr wrote: post #60

Honestly the biggest takeaway from this was that they were still developing mspaint.

I wonder why it needs development. Any security holes would very likely to be in image format parsers, which are hopefully dynamically linked and maintained elsewhere.

Re: MS Paint is here to stay

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Post by baalimago » Tue, Jul 25, 2017, 6:58 AM UTC

but now it's probably going to be bundled up with all kinds of crap, such as ms pain(t) 3d

Re: MS Paint is here to stay

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Post by radicalbyte » Tue, Jul 25, 2017, 6:58 AM UTC

If they want to cut the bloat they can better look at fixing their installers. I don't need a copy of every installer ever used in my windows and program directories. Those folders are almost always the largest folders on my PC.

Re: MS Paint is here to stay

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Post by keithnz » Tue, Jul 25, 2017, 7:02 AM UTC

SwellJoe wrote: post #64

I just want to take a moment to rant about what an awful user experience Paint 3D was for me. I was using Windows for a short while because graphics under Linux weren't working well (GPU was new at the time, it took a couple of months for it to become reliable enough to use as a daily driver under Linux), and installed the Creator's update, which setup Paint 3D as the default program for every image file it could rec…

lots of people raging..... about resizing and cropping.... So I figure I'd have a go

I haven't used Paint 3d before until a few moments ago, and very quickly worked out how to resize and crop an image. Seemed simple enough. The image resizing is actually better than most I've seen.