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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, Informative) by kaszz on Tuesday July 25 2017, @08:54AM (4 children)

    by kaszz (4211) on Tuesday July 25 2017, @08:54AM (#544094) Journal

    The evil green slime made a tip: getpaint.net [getpaint.net]

    Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for PCs that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.

    Sane Unix users always have the equivalent XPaint [wikipedia.org]. Not held hostage to some corporate psychopaths.

    Now that the Micro$hit chopping block is out one can wonder when Notepad, Calculator, SoundRecorder goes too.
    (I did mention (Hyper)Terminal, Telnet, GW-BASIC earlier)

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 25 2017, @09:41AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 25 2017, @09:41AM (#544104)

    Everything but Edge must go!

    Since Windows is going down and cloud is going up, the future is clear: remove everything but browser and networking from the OS and push people to use cloud services. With telemetry, Cortana, OneDrive integration, etc, it's already halfway there :)

  • (Score: 2) by Pino P on Tuesday July 25 2017, @12:55PM (2 children)

    by Pino P (4721) on Tuesday July 25 2017, @12:55PM (#544139) Journal

    It looks like you're recommending Paint.NET, GIMP, IrfanView, or any other application available without charge.

    Good luck getting it past corporate AppLocker policy. Even outside schools and large businesses, good luck walking a user over the phone through downloading and installing it, particularly if the owner of the computer isn't around to key in the administrative password.

    • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Tuesday July 25 2017, @03:29PM (1 child)

      by kaszz (4211) on Tuesday July 25 2017, @03:29PM (#544192) Journal

      I get your point but for those that are able to download & install there is hope. As for corporate policy, there's always the option to bring your own device (BYOD).

      • (Score: 2) by Pino P on Wednesday July 26 2017, @04:22PM

        by Pino P (4721) on Wednesday July 26 2017, @04:22PM (#544705) Journal

        As for corporate policy, there's always the option to bring your own device (BYOD).

        Bring your own unapproved device in the door of the building and be fired on the spot. Ride a bus and have nowhere to store your personal phone? Too bad.