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Hell freezes over, MS Paint adds support for layers and PNG transparency (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 year 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] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

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