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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 Knowledge Troll on Tuesday July 25 2017, @02:32PM (1 child)

    by Knowledge Troll (5948) on Tuesday July 25 2017, @02:32PM (#544175) Homepage Journal

    You can't screenshot in it.

    That's because screenshot is built into the OS. Try pressing "prtscn" then going to edit -> paste in paint. The screenshot goes to the paste buffer.

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  • (Score: 2) by ledow on Tuesday July 25 2017, @03:31PM

    by ledow (5567) on Tuesday July 25 2017, @03:31PM (#544193) Homepage

    Try it in a remote terminal. You take a screenshot of YOUR screen, not the remote one. If you were, for example, screenshoting a problem on a remote system.

    You then have to manually crop out anything that might in your screenshot that you don't want others to see.

    Additionally, PrtScrn can be remapped by programs.

    Also, some keyboards don't even HAVE a PrtScrn button any more.

    But apart from that, yeah, grand. Even SnippingTool is better than PrtScrn and is part of the OS - since what? Vista/XP? - too.