would be more common-sense to just kill Windows
Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
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Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
#12This is silliness. I Win+R, mspaint at least 10 times a day. I paste in screenshots and quickly cut out just a portion of them. Or leave the screenshot there for later review. Why don't they just remove the file browser? Or how about mouse support?
Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
#13There goes my screenshot editing software
My thoughts are with all those help-deskers who will have to explain this to a million people who used this to cut and paste pictures.
Microsoft sure likes to put up a rodeo-experience for the customers.
Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
#14It'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…
https://www.getpaint.net/
Just be careful where you click, that site is loaded with adverts for dubious software.
Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
#15This is silliness. I Win+R, mspaint at least 10 times a day. I paste in screenshots and quickly cut out just a portion of them. Or leave the screenshot there for later review. Why don't they just remove the file browser? Or how about mouse support?
Agreed. In fact, I also use OSX a lot, and would love to have 'Paint' there too.
Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
#16It'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…
https://www.getpaint.net/
Thank you. Unfortunately I'm on an enterprise controlled software stack. I'm not sure my needs warrant adding new software and thus more maintenance work for the IT department when our stack also includes photoshop.
Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
#17Why kill it though?
If they were going to replace it with something good enough to challenge Adobe (pls do, they need some competition) then sure. Paint can't need that many maintainers?
Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
#18This is silliness. I Win+R, mspaint at least 10 times a day. I paste in screenshots and quickly cut out just a portion of them. Or leave the screenshot there for later review. Why don't they just remove the file browser? Or how about mouse support?
It's being replaced, they're removing the program, not the functionality.
Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
#19This is silliness. I Win+R, mspaint at least 10 times a day. I paste in screenshots and quickly cut out just a portion of them. Or leave the screenshot there for later review. Why don't they just remove the file browser? Or how about mouse support?
As much as I 100% agree with your comment, from MSs point of view, you now have the Snipping Tool to do that.
Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
#20It'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…
Paint 3D shipped already and is the replacement version, it can also save pictures without a background.