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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: 2) by TheRaven on Tuesday July 25 2017, @10:06AM (2 children)

    by TheRaven (270) on Tuesday July 25 2017, @10:06AM (#544107) Journal
    This error was in the Slashdot article as well. Microsoft licensed ZSoft Paintbrush and shipped it with Windows with the Paintbrush name (in 3.0 and 3.11 - it was Paint in 1.x and 2.x, but no one used those). Windows 95 and NT 4 had a complete rewrite as a Microsoft win32 app, which was shipped as Paint. Anyone who remembers Windows 95 will recall people complaining that Paint was inferior to Paintbrush (and significantly worse than Paintshop Pro, even with its 'you are on day 497 of your 30 day free trial' warning).
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  • (Score: 2) by isostatic on Tuesday July 25 2017, @10:36AM (1 child)

    by isostatic (365) on Tuesday July 25 2017, @10:36AM (#544113) Journal

    You lasted 497 days without wiping your machine and reinstalling windows? Wow.

    • (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Tuesday July 25 2017, @03:52PM

      by TheRaven (270) on Tuesday July 25 2017, @03:52PM (#544196) Journal
      On Windows 3.11, sure. It wasn't sufficiently complicated to get too screwed up, and its default state was sufficiently screwed up that it was difficult to make it much worse.
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