They're really pushing the Paint3D app, the Mixed Reality Viewer and the Photos app to take over Paint's roles and beyond. As for Wordpad they probably will deprecate and disable to gently nudge people to online Office 365 cloud subscriptions. Another reason I suppose is to decouple these apps from Windows system so their replacements can be updated through the store instead of waiting for OS feature updates.
Paint3D is an atrocious, poorly-designed app. Tools are all over the place, familiar shortcuts have disappeared, and the UI looks like it was designed for the Windows 8 vision of Windows-on-a-tablet. No thanks. WIN+R, mspaint, ENTER--every time.
Paint.NET is a worthy replacement to MSPaint, and I'm glad it exists. It IMO manage to balance simplicity and features that is quite accessible to an average user.
Outside of Paint3D I don't think any of those were/are related to the classic mspaint. Mixed reality is new (and not really related to paint) but Photos was clearly there to supplant Windows Photo Viewer.
Sometime within the next 2 years, Microsoft will release Word3D, which will be a text editor written in Electron and which will consume 100MB of memory to edit a 1KB text file.
Ah yes, who can forget Eighteen Megabytes And Constant Swapping? IIRC it comes from the Lispy environment that lends it its scriptability. Memory is cheap nowadays so we can afford to be less suave and use the multi-purpose well-rounded duct tape that is Javascript
It's been a loooong time since I used them. Sometimes, maybe on a fresh install, maybe when Win10 has decided to reset your defaults, there's that rare .rtf, .nfo, .bmp or some other file that awakens WordPad or Paint from their deep slumber in the depths of Microsoft Hell.
Presumably, Cthulhu comes next, which is why it's vital to hit the X button as soon as possible and stave off the apocalypse.
It doesn't make sense. Paint and notepad provide basic functionality and are less than a megabyte (and the size could be optimized more). Making them optional provides zero real-world benefit, with the downside that now some systems now have no way to edit a text file.
Making them optional provides zero real-world benefit, with the downside that now some systems now have no way to edit a text file.
Consider that unused features don't need to be downloaded, reduce OS footprint, reduce update downtime, and reduce bandwidth usage during updates all of which can benefit both the customer and the supplier.
Also consider that not all environments need specific functionality or may purposefully want to remove it for a variety of reasons.
This isn't about having a minimal install. It merely removes links to paint and Wordpad.
> This change does not remove Paint or WordPad from Windows 10, but you can now disable both apps and also remove traces of these apps from the Start Menu and other locations.
I suspect it's done because they consider Paint and Wordpad to be deprecated and want to help discourage use.
Paint, to me, is like Notepad. A very low level tool to accomplish basic image manipulation, like Notepad is a low level tool to accomplish basic text manipulation.
I never see either tool going away. I have better tools installed (e.g. Paint.Net) but still go to Paint for basic image manipulation/cropping, because it is fast/simple.
I'm sure wordpad and paint will come back when they find a way to cram IAPs into them. On that note...no...no I doubt candy crush will be going anywhere.
They should not preinstall any software, and let you install them at the first boot. Windows 10 comes with so much bloatware preinstalled that you then have to waste time to remove, I want just nothing.
Well a fresh Windows install actually contains far less apps or useful software compared to a typical Linux distribution install. The bloat is almost certainly because of OEM rubbish.
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i prefer https://www.getpaint.net/
Break away from Microsofts abusive ecosystem.
This is spectacular, and I'm consumed with curiosity wrt what's going on under the hood when you remove these two programmes.
More than just changes to file associations, natch.
Along with:
> The size of Microsoft Paint is 6.68 MB and WordPad occupies 6.25 MB ...
... and my curiosity extends to what kind of non-enterprise user (ie. someone who has to attend to this step manually) would bother.
Sometime within the next 2 years, Microsoft will release Word3D, which will be a text editor written in Electron and which will consume 100MB of memory to edit a 1KB text file.
Presumably, Cthulhu comes next, which is why it's vital to hit the X button as soon as possible and stave off the apocalypse.
Consider that unused features don't need to be downloaded, reduce OS footprint, reduce update downtime, and reduce bandwidth usage during updates all of which can benefit both the customer and the supplier.
Also consider that not all environments need specific functionality or may purposefully want to remove it for a variety of reasons.
> This change does not remove Paint or WordPad from Windows 10, but you can now disable both apps and also remove traces of these apps from the Start Menu and other locations.
I suspect it's done because they consider Paint and Wordpad to be deprecated and want to help discourage use.
Paint, to me, is like Notepad. A very low level tool to accomplish basic image manipulation, like Notepad is a low level tool to accomplish basic text manipulation.
I never see either tool going away. I have better tools installed (e.g. Paint.Net) but still go to Paint for basic image manipulation/cropping, because it is fast/simple.
The article is inaccurate. Removing these will actually remove files from the system and not just links.
I suspect it's done because they consider Paint and Wordpad to be deprecated and want to help discourage use.
This is definitely not the reason.
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