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Microsoft Paint Preview [video]

42 points by campuscodi 10y ago

zhan_eg 10y ago
Few more videos - https://twitter.com/h0x0d/status/784537365436100609 https://twitter.com/h0x0d/status/784537365436100609 and some background http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/7/13207612/microsoft-paint-windows-10-app http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/7/13207612/microsoft-paint-w...
- 16bytes 10y ago
  Thanks for the additional links. My first thought was, "is today April 1st?", but this appears to be real. This is good work. I like this new Microsoft.
parkersweb 10y ago
What will happen to 'Jim'll Paint It' once the new version arrives? http://jimllpaintit.tumblr.com/ http://jimllpaintit.tumblr.com/
- ygra 10y ago
  He doesn't even seem to use the fancy new brushes from the current version.
- chrismbarr 10y ago
  This guy is asking the important questions here.
- k__ 10y ago
  Dank Memes 2.0
boggydepot 10y ago
I hope the startup time doesn't increase. Paint has been really great (and very fast) whenever you just need to cut & paste screenshots together like I did here: https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/75921/19019883/3ad6cb66-88c9-11e6-9592-46a8e4fc5e6b.PNG https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/75921/19019883/3a...
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aedron 10y ago
How have MS Paint, Notepad and the Command Prompt not been updated for 20 years? I can only assume they are some kind of running joke at Microsoft.
- kozhevnikov 10y ago
  http://www.hanselman.com/blog/Windows10GetsAFreshCommandPromptAndLotsOfHotkeys.aspx http://www.hanselman.com/blog/Windows10GetsAFreshCommandProm...
  - WorldMaker 10y ago
    The Console Host has seen a bunch of interesting incremental improvements over the course of Windows 10 as well. The Anniversary Update, especially, included a bunch of ConHost updates too, in particular a number of things inspired from Bash On Ubuntu On Windows needs like deeper console emulation stuff (revenge of ANSI, *nix terminal emulation, etc).
- exDM69 10y ago
  I'm pretty sure that Paint has seen some improvements in the past 20 years. At least it supports .png's and other image formats. I rarely use Windows, but when I need to upload screenshots, I use print screen and paste to Paint for saving to a file. Don't fix it if it ain't broken, I guess. They did actually update the Windows Calculator in Win10 and completely broke it. It's only got a handful of features it used to and seems to use floating point arithmetic so you don't always get correct results. It looks pretty and consistent with Win10 apps, perhaps it's more important than actually calculating.
  - ygra 10y ago
    Trying out Raymond's suggestion[½] to test arithmetic precision (1 / 3 * 10000000000 - 3333333333 =. The result is one third exactly. Type 1/x - 3 = and you get zero back) yields the exact result with calc on Windows 10. It's definitely not standard floating-point. [½] from here: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040525-00/?p=39193 https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040525-00/?p=...
exDM69 10y ago
The freehand 3d tool looks a lot like "Teddy 3d" [0], a neat 3d drawing app that's based on some techniques presented at SIGGRAPH in 1999 [1]. This is a really interesting technique and could have a lot of fun uses. [0] http://www-ui.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~takeo/teddy/teddy.htm http://www-ui.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~takeo/teddy/teddy.htm [1] http://www-ui.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~takeo/papers/siggraph99.pdf http://www-ui.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~takeo/papers/siggraph99.pd...
throwaway2016a 10y ago
This is just a great reminder that OS X doesn't come with any sort of image tool at all. Unless you consider "Preview" an image tool because it allows crop and resize. Come on Apple, throw us a bone.
kyriakos 10y ago
This probably will have something to do with hololens. The whole ui will translate nicely over to hololens.
WayneBro 10y ago
Of course it's tightly integrated with your Microsoft account! I wonder if you'll even be able to use it without one? It's probably a UWP app too. Yuck! I hate what Windows is turning into.
pasbesoin 10y ago
I haven't been using Windows significantly in some time. Is Paint.NET still around? It is what I would point a user to, if they aren't going to e.g. need/pay for Adobe or the like.

42 points by campuscodi 10y ago

Few more videos - https://twitter.com/h0x0d/status/784537365436100609 https://twitter.com/h0x0d/status/784537365436100609 and some background http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/7/13207612/microsoft-paint-windows-10-app http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/7/13207612/microsoft-paint-w...

16bytes 10y ago
Thanks for the additional links. My first thought was, "is today April 1st?", but this appears to be real. This is good work. I like this new Microsoft.

parkersweb 10y ago

What will happen to 'Jim'll Paint It' once the new version arrives? http://jimllpaintit.tumblr.com/ http://jimllpaintit.tumblr.com/

ygra 10y ago
He doesn't even seem to use the fancy new brushes from the current version.
chrismbarr 10y ago
This guy is asking the important questions here.
k__ 10y ago
Dank Memes 2.0

boggydepot 10y ago

I hope the startup time doesn't increase. Paint has been really great (and very fast) whenever you just need to cut & paste screenshots together like I did here: https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/75921/19019883/3ad6cb66-88c9-11e6-9592-46a8e4fc5e6b.PNG https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/75921/19019883/3a...

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aedron 10y ago

How have MS Paint, Notepad and the Command Prompt not been updated for 20 years? I can only assume they are some kind of running joke at Microsoft.

kozhevnikov 10y ago
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/Windows10GetsAFreshCommandPromptAndLotsOfHotkeys.aspx http://www.hanselman.com/blog/Windows10GetsAFreshCommandProm...
- WorldMaker 10y ago
  The Console Host has seen a bunch of interesting incremental improvements over the course of Windows 10 as well. The Anniversary Update, especially, included a bunch of ConHost updates too, in particular a number of things inspired from Bash On Ubuntu On Windows needs like deeper console emulation stuff (revenge of ANSI, *nix terminal emulation, etc).
exDM69 10y ago
I'm pretty sure that Paint has seen some improvements in the past 20 years. At least it supports .png's and other image formats. I rarely use Windows, but when I need to upload screenshots, I use print screen and paste to Paint for saving to a file. Don't fix it if it ain't broken, I guess. They did actually update the Windows Calculator in Win10 and completely broke it. It's only got a handful of features it used to and seems to use floating point arithmetic so you don't always get correct results. It looks pretty and consistent with Win10 apps, perhaps it's more important than actually calculating.
- ygra 10y ago
  Trying out Raymond's suggestion[½] to test arithmetic precision (1 / 3 * 10000000000 - 3333333333 =. The result is one third exactly. Type 1/x - 3 = and you get zero back) yields the exact result with calc on Windows 10. It's definitely not standard floating-point. [½] from here: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040525-00/?p=39193 https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040525-00/?p=...

exDM69 10y ago

The freehand 3d tool looks a lot like "Teddy 3d" [0], a neat 3d drawing app that's based on some techniques presented at SIGGRAPH in 1999 [1]. This is a really interesting technique and could have a lot of fun uses. [0] http://www-ui.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~takeo/teddy/teddy.htm http://www-ui.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~takeo/teddy/teddy.htm [1] http://www-ui.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~takeo/papers/siggraph99.pdf http://www-ui.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~takeo/papers/siggraph99.pd...

throwaway2016a 10y ago

This is just a great reminder that OS X doesn't come with any sort of image tool at all. Unless you consider "Preview" an image tool because it allows crop and resize. Come on Apple, throw us a bone.

kyriakos 10y ago

This probably will have something to do with hololens. The whole ui will translate nicely over to hololens.

WayneBro 10y ago

Of course it's tightly integrated with your Microsoft account! I wonder if you'll even be able to use it without one? It's probably a UWP app too. Yuck! I hate what Windows is turning into.

pasbesoin 10y ago

I haven't been using Windows significantly in some time. Is Paint.NET still around? It is what I would point a user to, if they aren't going to e.g. need/pay for Adobe or the like.