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Why 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?
Question is why does MS after 32 years still include incredible WEAK tools like Paint and Notepad? They should spent a little and buy up some of the great tools out there and include them in windows.
This might help explain why they won't go down this route: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor... .
This is an opportunity for open source options to get a lot more users.
What alternatives does Windows have built-in? I use mspaint a fair amount to black out sensitive areas of screenshots or for cropping images to a specific size (scale then shave x pixels off the sides to get a specific aspect ratio), but not often enough that I feel like setting up an alternative on all my machines.
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https://www.getpaint.net/
Just be careful where you click, that site is loaded with adverts for dubious software.
This 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?
that allows you to screenshot, draw, highlight, email, copy to clipboard, and you can snip a snip to crop.
Interesting to notice, syskey.exe is also going to be removed. Wonder how it will affect fake tech support scammers.
My tool for cracking syskey locks doesn't work on UEFI systems so I'm glad they're just gonna break he functionality.
Makes sense. Microsoft is missing out on recurring revenue. They purged the other image tool (the MS Office one that let you view TIFFs), and now they're killing paint. I'm sure there will be a Windows 10 Creators Pack for Creation for Personal Users (not to be confused with a creators update) available on 4 different channels for $6.99/mo. The stable branch will not have the ability to open JPEGs or save to a format…
Makes sense. Microsoft is missing out on recurring revenue. I'm sure there will be a Windows 10 Creators Pack for Mouse Power Users for $6.99/mo.
Paint is one executable file, no? Getting rid of this does literally nothing to combat bloat and seems like a pointless move that will irritate users.