Well, I'll just install Paint.NET then.
MS Paint is here to stay
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Re: MS Paint is here to stay
#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
Shift-WindowsKey+S is the new screen snipping tool. Built right into the OS.
Huh. I just tried it. A snipping interface came up and let me select a rectangle of the screen. Then, none of the following things happened: - A message telling me where the picture went. - The picture showing up on the desktop. - The picture showing up in "Documents". - The picture showing up in "Pictures". But, I was able to recover the screenshot by... opening Paint, and pasting from the clipboard! That's not a so…
You can also open up MS Word (almost guaranteed to be installed on a locked down corporate Windows machine), and paste the image into a blank document. For bonus points you can then right click the pasted image, and select 'Save As PNG'.
Re: MS Paint is here to stay
#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
"Windows Store is a secure app delivery platform"
Ha ha ...
Re: MS Paint is here to stay
#94I find the title very contradictory to the article. It's going to "stay", but in the Windows Store (so you have to download), and with very subtle words they say that it's not going to get any updates. So, no Microsoft, you're saying it's going to go more than you're saying it's going to stay.
What updates do you want to see in MS Paint? It's feature complete. Bug fixes?
Re: MS Paint is here to stay
#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I think it must have changed recently because you never used to be able to do that.
Re: MS Paint is here to stay
#96Re: MS Paint is here to stay
#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
That is so annoying, in particular that you can't remove a lot of the junk.
Re: MS Paint is here to stay
#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
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Re: MS Paint is here to stay
#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
This is pretty normal, users who have this enabled would not have the admin permissions to install apps from sleazy websites. The store also includes things like games and social media apps which corporate love to block. IT support is another issue, if users can install random apps from the store then they will expect IT to support random apps.
We also had a look at the enterprise store recently to publish our own apps too, but the reliance on azure cloud means that we'll be publishing through other means for the foreseeable future.
It's amazing to see how MS destroying it's own platform.
Re: MS Paint is here to stay
#100I find the title very contradictory to the article. It's going to "stay", but in the Windows Store (so you have to download), and with very subtle words they say that it's not going to get any updates. So, no Microsoft, you're saying it's going to go more than you're saying it's going to stay.
What updates do you want to see in MS Paint? It's feature complete. Bug fixes?
At a minimum, an assurance it works in Windows 20+