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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: 3, Interesting) by radu on Tuesday July 25 2017, @06:58AM (2 children)

    by radu (1919) on Tuesday July 25 2017, @06:58AM (#544048)

    Use case: take 2 screenshots, cut a portion of each, paste together as a new image; draw an arrow pointing to something, perhaps add 2 words besides that. Paint does that easily. I searched a lot for a Paint-alternative for Linux and eventually found this (available for Windows too, I haven't tried it though):

    https://pinta-project.com/pintaproject/pinta/ [pinta-project.com]

    No GIMP/Krita bloat for just that use case which covers 99% of all I ever need of "image manipulation".

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 25 2017, @01:49PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 25 2017, @01:49PM (#544162)
    Try Kolourpaint4 [debian.org]. Kolourpaint has similar features to mspaint.

  • (Score: 2) by Hyper on Tuesday July 25 2017, @02:10PM

    by Hyper (1525) on Tuesday July 25 2017, @02:10PM (#544165) Journal

    Try Kolourpaint4 [debian.org].
    It has similar features to mspaint.