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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: 1, Troll) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday July 25 2017, @12:53PM (3 children)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Tuesday July 25 2017, @12:53PM (#544138) Journal

    Wasn't that a so-so operating system from, what was it, 1995? Is that still around?

    The only OSes I still encounter are OSX, Unix, and Linux, so, basically, all flavors of Unix.

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  • (Score: 2) by Pino P on Tuesday July 25 2017, @01:00PM

    by Pino P (4721) on Tuesday July 25 2017, @01:00PM (#544142) Journal

    Wasn't that a so-so operating system from, what was it, 1995? Is that still around?

    Windows NT was introduced in July 1993.

    The only OSes I still encounter are OSX, Unix, and Linux, so, basically, all flavors of Unix.

    The vast majority of laptop computers sold in U.S. electronics retail chains come preinstalled with a direct descendant of Windows NT. Among major laptop makers in the U.S. market, only Apple seems to mark on the package that a laptop is compatible with a flavor of *n?x.

  • (Score: 2) by EvilSS on Tuesday July 25 2017, @01:40PM

    by EvilSS (1456) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday July 25 2017, @01:40PM (#544161)
    Careful not to cut yourself there edgelord

  • (Score: 2) by turgid on Tuesday July 25 2017, @02:21PM

    by turgid (4318) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday July 25 2017, @02:21PM (#544169) Journal

    Did Microsoft ever port a GUI to Xenix? Now that would be a horror story.