(Not?) OT: MS Paint officially being deprecated (i.e., no longer supported)
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/07/windows-paint-is…
The venerable Windows Paint program, known to many by the name of its executable,
mspaint.exe, has been marked as deprecated in the forthcoming Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, The Guardian reports.It's possible that Paint will continue to ship with Windows in a kind of zombie state: not subject to any active maintenance but kept around indefinitely since it's self-contained and not a security risk.
While
mspaint.exeisn't exactly good, it is at least basically adequate for simple tasks such as redacting information from screenshots.
Or for like Michigan MGoArt and stuffs...
How will this impact your lives or, more importantly, snarky blog art? Should Autumn Thunder make a triumphant return? Will Prevail and Ride use some other program to make his, um, art-like-substances?
What were the best MS Paint arty things of all time on this board?
RIP in peace to Prevail and Ride
Prevail and Ride is actually a UT sports blog that is alive and well. A guy named thujone is the artist who does the MS paint work-ups that appear on Prevail and Ride. I'd heard he's now in semi-retirement or something. He used to do weekly summaries of notable things in CFB and also an annual off-season review which hilariously skewered all the shenaningans with coaches, etc. but I don't believe he's doing them anymore.
Here's one Michigan related panel he did recently (after the Play that Shall Not Be Named). One of the few without a penis on it, but decidedly straddling the line.
Who would defecate on MS Paint? That's just rude...
This came to mind when I read the thread title. Should I be worried that I'm thinking like you?!
Worried? No. Fucking horrified? Probably.
honestly, what maintenance still happens to mspaint as it is? Is this just saying they arent going to actively make sure it works with new releases?
if it's a stand alone executable file. At least for a few more Windows releases.
What if I need a new avatar? Won't somebody think of the children?
I hear he's got time on his hands
It's a billion times better than MS Paint anyway and it's free:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paint.net
Microsoft sucks.
#AppleForLife
I was forced to switch from a lifetime of PC use to Mac last year. Mac is absolutely awful. I hate it.
Well, yeah. Because you were using MS for so long. I was skeptical before switching, too, but realized that Macs are far better.
Anyone who thinks either is far superior in all situations is ignorant and/or a fan boy and/or immature and/or an idiot.
Both platforms have strengths and weaknessess. Period. One may suit you better than the other depending on the work you're doing.
Isn't Paint.net built on the functions of MSPaint? Will all of that still be there in Windows 10? I used to use it on my home computer 15-20 years ago because I didn't have photoshop at the time. It's a great product.
According to Gizmo's Freeware, it installs the MS .NET framework.
Depreciated, but appreciated.
The article the OP cited says:
While mspaint.exe isn't exactly good, ... .
Of course, they meant to go on to say that MSPaint is exactly great.
Now is Adobe's chance to make you pay for a $10,000 license in order to redact exactly one sentence of information from a scanned document. I guess it better be the right sentence, eh?
I say we continue to have banner art competitions until the day Microsoft sends a form letter which amounts to a "cease and desist" order on the program executable.