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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

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Post by krylon »

I have not used MS Paint in many, many years, but I have some fond memories of playing with it on my first PC.

I can understand, though, how this upsets people that have made it part of their workflow. For simple tasks, Paint is nice because it starts really fast compared to e.g. GIMP. And it's on every ____ing Windows machine, you can rely on that. Same as notepad or calc. These programs, after all, are there for a reason.

(I am not on Windows 10, my work laptop runs Windows 7, and at home I don't use Windows, so this does not affect me directly.)

Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years

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Post by krylon »

brak1 wrote: post #180
[deleted] wrote: post #165

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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https://www.getpaint.net/license.html

Huh. I thought it was open source.

EDIT: Wikipedia says it used to be open source, but it went to closed source. Still free as in beer, though.

Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years

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Post by Pxtl »

ygra wrote: post #122
4ndr3vv wrote: post #105

MS 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...

Perhaps similar to Notepad, which has been more or less feature-complete since Windows 2000 or so. I guess it is also internally "deprecated", but will continue to be shipped for quite a while. Microsoft doesn't tend to break such things. In Paint's case, I'd guess the most that will happen is that it will vanish from the Start menu, but the executable will still be there.

"Find" in Notepad does not wrap around to the start of the document, and has no option to do so, so in order to search the whole document you have to put the cursor at the start. That's bone-headed behavior and should've been fixed a decade ago.

Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years

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Post by notadoc »

mwexler wrote: post #67

All 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…

> And yes, I still miss my 1/8" jack on my iphone. Every single day.

Agree. I bought an iPhone 7 and now I never listen to music or podcasts with it, a very unexpected side effect of not having a headphone jack.

Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years

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Post by keithpeter »

Does anyone else here remember the little booklet that came with Windows 95 where they showed you how to produce little projects with Notepad, Wordpad and Paint?

The idea being that even with the bare OS, you had a few tools to work with and some tutorials that exposed features of the OS in a systematic way.

Anecdote: I'm still to this day showing colleagues at work the wonder of the Windows button and the power of Ctrl-Z, Ctrl-Y and within a document window Ctrl-F.

Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years

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Post by grimgrin »

peterburkimsher wrote: post #183

Paint is still my preferred way to save screenshots. Press the Print Screen button, paste into Paint, draw a red line, save.

So here's a pretty cool thing using ShareX:

http://i.imgur.com/5WEnr6b.png

Ok so it's another screenshot tool. Capture all, a window, a selection, etc. Bind global hotkeys.

But where it really shines is the easily configurable "after capture" and "after upload" toggles. In the screenshot you can see I have: copy to clipboard, save, and perform actions turned on. The first is nice because I can easily paste into Slack. The middle is nice because it goes to a particular directory and I have history. But the latter is something I just turned on to show you how it can easily open the screenshot into mspaint.exe for you.

https://getsharex.com/

https://github.com/ShareX/ShareX/

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