Microsoft Paint to be killed off

[left-of-center2012]

Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
Long-standing basic graphics editing program, used throughout childhoods since the 1980s, has been marked for death.

Microsoft’s next Windows 10 update, called the Autumn (or Fall in the US) Creators Update, will bring a variety of new features. But one long-standing stalwart of the Windows experience has been put on the chopping block: Microsoft Paint.

First released with the very first version of Windows 1.0 in 1985, Paint in its various guises would be one of the first graphics editors used by many and became a core part of Windows. Starting life as a 1-bit monochrome licensed version of ZSoft’s PC Paintbrush, it wasn’t until Windows 98 that Paint could save in JPEG.

With the Windows 10 Creators Update, released in April, Microsoft introduced the new Paint 3D, which is installed alongside traditional Paint and features 3D image making tools as well as some basic 2D image editing. But it is not an update to original Paint and doesn’t behave like it.

Now Microsoft has announced that, alongside Outlook Express, Reader app and Reading list, Microsoft Paint has been signaled for death having been added to the “features that are removed or deprecated in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update” list.

Read more at:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/24/microsoft-paint-kill-off-after-32-years-graphics-editing-program

(I use 'Paint' for their erasure)

[citood]

1. I just used paint a few hours ago

Good way to trim a portion of a scan out, to past into another document. Time to find a work around

[left-of-center2012]

2. Have you tried the Paint 3D?

I have not, but will today.

Do you know of a free program (?) that has an 'erasure' ?
Thanks

[TreasonousBastard]

3. What's "erasure"? It looks like Paint 3D and Paint.net are staying around...

and there's always GIMP and a few other free ones out there.

[left-of-center2012]

4. Erasure looks like the old erasures wwe had in school

It's in the 'tool box' atop the 'Paint' page.
You use it to erase something from a photo or page.

[TreasonousBastard]

5. OK, both Paint 3D and Paint.net have erasers...

not sure if they work like you're used to, but they are erasers.

[left-of-center2012]

6. Thanks. Found it on Paint 3D just now. n/t

[citood]

7. No...I'm on windows 7...have to investigate if it works

[steve2470]

8. Microsoft Says Paint Isnt Going Away But You Already Knew That

https://www.thurrott.com/windows/128081/microsoft-says-paint-isnt-going-away-already-knew?_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8Z2HxdnbG3rIUWAz91-8XDEpYf7tnJGWZfn-n8E6UNn4hOmIxhQaYlvqfJcS5gPgSa5RK6F37Fi9frMqtpupJLXknqpg&_hsmi=54611194

Yesterday, the Internet lost its mind after it was ‘uncovered’ that Microsoft would be removing Paint from the next update to Windows 10. Of course, for those who know the difference between the words deprecated and removed, you were already aware that Paint wasn’t going away or if you watched First Ring Daily yesterday, Paul and I both reiterated that Paint was not being removed too.

Microsoft, to clear up the confusion around the words ‘deprecated’ and ‘removed’, has officially said that Paint is not going away and in fact, will be arriving in the Windows Store in the near future.

In a blog post that the company clearly states “MS Paint is here to stay, it will just have a new home soon, in the Windows Store where it will be available for free.”

There really isn’t much else to say other than one journalist misinterpreted a technical Microsoft document and then dozens of sites parroted the statement without actually doing their research. For now, know that Paint isn’t going away and the 32-year-old application is here to stay.