Shit is weak. Paint was the bomb.com.
Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
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Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
#112All the comments that "you can just use X to do Y" is missing the point that Paint just works, for almost every value of Y. No argument, Paint.net is great, snipping tool solves the grab and crop, but for most anything else you need to do in a hurry, you need a quick paint program. It's like removing Notepad: we all know hundreds of editors we would replace it with, from Notepad++ to vim/emacs... but isn't nice that…
Absolutely. Paint is by a long shot, Microsoft's best product. It's easy to build since it's codebase is pretty small and they haven't changed it much since it was introduced. So it's rock solid. IDK why they're fixing what ain't broke.
Agreed! Paint was the only Microsoft product that I actually loved.
Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
#113MS hasn't said they're going to remove it: [“Deprecated” Apps] ...are not in active development and might be removed in future releases [1] Its clearly not being actively developed, but there's no indication its going anywhere just yet. [1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4034825/features-th...
In other words, mature. So let's mark it for removal.
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Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
#114I remember when I first started using OSX (forgetting OS9 and prior for now) and being shocked that there is no built-in paint program. There still is not one. Paint works amazing well for very quick edits, which is all I really ever need to do.
Preview actually lets you do a lot of things you might have wanted to use paint for. Unfortunately, nobody in their right mind would expect something called 'preview' to do image editing, so I never noticed until someone told me.
Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
Absolutely. Paint is by a long shot, Microsoft's best product. It's easy to build since it's codebase is pretty small and they haven't changed it much since it was introduced. So it's rock solid. IDK why they're fixing what ain't broke.
Agreed! Paint was the only Microsoft product that I actually loved.
They did the same thing with the calculator, turning what is probably the simplest app on the entire computer into a Metro-ified flat-design-meme store-dependent mess for absolutely no benefit.
Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
#116Let's get rid of the handful of useful features left in Windows. Next time around we'll take care of that pesky calculator, and then we're coming for notepad.
Hahaha! Best @#$%ing comment in this whole thread.
Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
And it only took them what? 30 years?
They had an issue with abusing monopoly power, once upon a time. It's only recently that people stopped coming at them with torches and pitchforks every time they added a feature found in third-party apps.
The cynic would say their Windows 10 behavior is a continuing abuse - including the unwarranted setting of Edge and other Microsoft apps as defaults (overriding the user's settings) after an update, the forced upgrades, and so on.
Except now they have a "but it's about keeping the users safe" pretext, so they don't catch as much hate for it.
Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think he said they save you from having to surface the usual affordances through several settings in multiple preferences menus. Or something.
Windows has had a mechanism for creating empty documents via the shell since Windows 95. I don't think I've ever found it useful. (Much like the ability to drag and drop text from WordPad to the desktop to make a clipping file.)
Coming from Windows all my life to OS X was a bit bumpy. I will say not being able to create a quick text document is so very mildly annoying. But I've learned to use Notes.app in place of my usual purposes for *.txt files unless I'm wanting to move some chunk of text data somewhere quickly outside of the walled garden of my Apple ecosystem.
Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
#119This 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?
On Windows 10 try: WIN+SHIFT+S to get instant screen clipping and paste it to e.g. Twitter or whatever.
This is the OneNote screen clipping tool. If you don't have Office, Win+Shift+S doesn't do anything.
This is a super useful tool, but most often I paste into mspaint and mark up from there.
Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
#120This 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?
On Windows 10 try: WIN+SHIFT+S to get instant screen clipping and paste it to e.g. Twitter or whatever.
I believe this is a One Note shortcut. If you don't have One Note, this likely won't work.
But if you do have One Note, this is much easier than using Paint.