Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
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Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
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Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
#2There goes my screenshot editing software
Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
#3There goes my screenshot editing software
Try Greenshot [0] for taking, and editing screenshots on Windows.
Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
#4There goes my screenshot editing software
Try Greenshot [0] for taking, and editing screenshots on Windows. [0] http://getgreenshot.org/
The main issue I have with this is that, like you could guarantee vi/vim being present on any Unix/Linux installation, mspaint.exe would always be present on any Windows installation for easily taking screenshots. When working with locked-down systems, such as we do at work, that was a really useful feature.
Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
#5For me, the program lost its charm when they introduced the antialiased shapes, soft brushes etc (Win7?). The MSPaint aesthetic was all about rough and ready aliased drawing.
Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
Try Greenshot [0] for taking, and editing screenshots on Windows. [0] http://getgreenshot.org/
The main issue I have with this is that, like you could guarantee vi/vim being present on any Unix/Linux installation, mspaint.exe would always be present on any Windows installation for easily taking screenshots. When working with locked-down systems, such as we do at work, that was a really useful feature.
Snipping Tool still there for screenshots.
Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
#7It's probably the Microsoft product I use the most outside of windows, visual studio and outlook. If it could save pictures without a background I probably wouldn't need any other image editor.
I probably use it around 10 times a week professionally, much more than I use Word (I do most of my writing and notetaking in standard text editors and only use Word when it's time to style it or save to PDF).
So this is terrible news to me.
Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
#8Just use paint.net
Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Try Greenshot [0] for taking, and editing screenshots on Windows. [0] http://getgreenshot.org/
The main issue I have with this is that, like you could guarantee vi/vim being present on any Unix/Linux installation, mspaint.exe would always be present on any Windows installation for easily taking screenshots. When working with locked-down systems, such as we do at work, that was a really useful feature.
AltGr+Scroll, Win+R "mspaint", Enter, Ctrl-V is in my muscle memory.
Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
#10It's probably the Microsoft product I use the most outside of windows, visual studio and outlook. If it could save pictures without a background I probably wouldn't need any other image editor. I probably use it around 10 times a week professionally, much more than I use Word (I do most of my writing and notetaking in standard text editors and only use Word when it's time to style it or save to PDF). So this is terri…