Microsoft's iconic Paint application is coming to the end of its development, having been available in Windows since 1985.
The application provides for basic computer graphics editing and has been available with all consumer Windows operating systems, with marginal improvements with each iteration.
Its simplistic nature made it one of the most used Windows applications ever, but now ... [ read the full article ]
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They've already announced, after some outcry, that they will keep it as a Windows Store app.
All I can say is, "WTF are they thinking?!" Try taking a screenshot w/o Paint, if you don't own an equivalent program (which is quite common), as an easy example. Have fun!
Originally posted by Bozobub: They've already announced, after some outcry, that they will keep it as a Windows Store app.
All I can say is, "WTF are they thinking?!" Try taking a screenshot w/o Paint, if you don't own an equivalent program (which is quite common), as an easy example. Have fun!
I agree. Screenshots and Paint go hand-in-hand.
As for Paint3D.......what a lame and useless gimmick
Originally posted by Bozobub: They've already announced, after some outcry, that they will keep it as a Windows Store app.
All I can say is, "WTF are they thinking?!" Try taking a screenshot w/o Paint, if you don't own an equivalent program (which is quite common), as an easy example. Have fun!
I agree. Screenshots and Paint go hand-in-hand.
As for Paint3D.......what a lame and useless gimmick
Its paint with sketchup bascily....well MSs version...
Originally posted by Bozobub: They've already announced, after some outcry, that they will keep it as a Windows Store app.
All I can say is, "WTF are they thinking?!" Try taking a screenshot w/o Paint, if you don't own an equivalent program (which is quite common), as an easy example. Have fun!
Done! http://imgur.com/hAMF6eU Took me about 15 seconds to take the screenshot and post on here and I didn't have to put in Paint and crop it either. Then again, it doesn't take very long to crop it so I didn't accomplish too much. LOL RIP Paint.
Originally posted by Bozobub: They've already announced, after some outcry, that they will keep it as a Windows Store app.
All I can say is, "WTF are they thinking?!" Try taking a screenshot w/o Paint, if you don't own an equivalent program (which is quite common), as an easy example. Have fun!
Done! http://imgur.com/hAMF6eU Took me about 15 seconds to take the screenshot and post on here and I didn't have to put in Paint and crop it either. Then again, it doesn't take very long to crop it so I didn't accomplish too much. LOL RIP Paint.
After arrival of built-in Snipping Tool, Paint is no longer required for a screenshot, IMHO. However, Paint still has importance if you want to convert one pic format to the other, and get some basic photo editing done without 3rd party and/or web-based applications (I have used Paint for PNG => BMP a few days ago, meh).
Paint ain't dead,it just won't be included in future gen os's as already stated.However they have instead added 3D at the end of its name & included this new & improved version with windows *que Dr Evil Pout*
