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After 32 Years, the Death of Microsoft Paint

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday July 25 2017, @03:46AM   
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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• Not death, but almost Not death, but almost (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 25 2017, @06:02AM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 25 2017, @06:02AM (#544034)

  https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2017/07/24/ms-paint-stay/ [windows.com]

  MS Paint fans rejoice: The original art app isn’t going anywhere – except to the Windows Store for free!

  The only good thing about MS Paint is that it's always there, so you can find it on your grandma's PC or on most locked-down school or corporate machines when you need to do some simple image editing.

  It's like using a piece of wood to hammer in a nail. It works, but you use it only because you need it just for this one nail and getting a hammer requires filing 10 pages of paperwork in triplicate and waiting a month to maybe get permission to request it.

  Now the piece of wood will need the same paperwork as the hammer...

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• Re:Not death, but almost (Score: 2) by linuxrocks123 on Tuesday July 25 2017, @06:18AM

  by linuxrocks123 (2557) on Tuesday July 25 2017, @06:18AM (#544042) Journal

  Well, in that case...

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otCpCn0l4Wo [youtube.com]

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