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Hell freezes over, MS Paint adds support for layers and PNG transparency (arstechnica.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Automated background removal was also added recently.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Huh.... I thought they discontinued this program.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Who told you that? MS Paint is basically a critical windows utility.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you remove mspaint.exe then Windows will refuse to boot. It's true, I knew a guy!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Jokes aside you can boot Windows without Windows at all. By that I mean you can boot Windows NT without Win32.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

They discontinued Paint 3D

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

They did. I guess the community outcry was so loud even Microsoft had to heed it and reverse course.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I thought so too. I remember looking for alternatives for when it would be removed completely.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Paint.NET has been my simple go to for over a decade. I've never got on with Gimp or Photoshop. Paint.NET is more like Paintshop Pro used to be.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I honestly didn't realize I had been installing it... I went to boot paint.net and was surprised I couldn't find it on my work computer... that's how critical it is... or how often I don't change personal hardware

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

No. Wordpad is the one being discontinued. Paint is one of several programs that can now be uninstalled from Windows by end users without any special tricks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I read that WordPad also was being discontinued, in the same article stating the same about MS Paint iirc