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After 32 Years, the Death of Microsoft Paint

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday July 25 2017, @03:46AM   Printer-friendly
from the paint.net? dept.

takyon writes:

Microsoft Paint has been marked for death:

The era of Microsoft Paint appears to be coming to an end with the upcoming release of the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update. The image-editing application is officially being classified by Microsoft as a "deprecated feature," as noted by The Guardian. That means that, come this fall, Paint will "not be in active development and might be removed in future releases."

I go hard in the paint.

Also at PCWorld and Smithsonian.

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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by richtopia on Tuesday July 25 2017, @04:31AM (3 children)

    by richtopia (3160) on Tuesday July 25 2017, @04:31AM (#544012) Homepage Journal

    There is no alternative.

    Really there isn't. I work on inspection equipment which perform image processing, and some times the customer needs to do something very custom. I can write a tutorial in Paint and know it is installed on their computer. If I tell them to go to some website and install open source software some customers have to call IT. For counting pixels from the center of an image you really don't need anything else.

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by c0lo on Tuesday July 25 2017, @04:53AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday July 25 2017, @04:53AM (#544017) Journal

    I can write a tutorial in Paint

    You... what? Have you tried writing the tutorial in a text editor?
    Really, it's sooo much easier to align text lines, take care of the page size and whatnot than it is embedding text in rasters.
    You can even try to format the tutorial as an HTML page or set of pages.

    (grin... a large trollish one...)

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  • (Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 25 2017, @07:33AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 25 2017, @07:33AM (#544060)

    Try PaintShop Pro. Even the old freeware versions are better than Paint or or that infuriating kludgefest Gimp.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 26 2017, @02:03AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 26 2017, @02:03AM (#544422)

    My guess is that you can push the problem off for a few more years by snagging an older copy of Paint and installing that on the new "Paint-less" version of Windows. Maybe even include this with your software distribution so that customer IT is only called once when your stuff is installed.

    Win 7 didn't come with the original Windows Solitaire and the other simple card games. Sol.exe (plus cards.dll) that I grabbed from a WinXP system works fine.