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MS hasn't said they're going to remove it: [“Deprecated” Apps] ...are not in active development and might be removed in future releases [1] Its clearly not b
by 4ndr3vv 9y ago
MS hasn't said they're going to remove it:
[“Deprecated” Apps] ...are not in active development and might be removed in future releases [1]
Its clearly not being actively developed, but there's no indication its going anywhere just yet.
[1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4034825/features-that-are-removed-or-deprecated-in-windows-10-fall-creators-up https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4034825/features-th...
- unethical_ban 9y agoIn other words, mature. So let's mark it for removal.
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- ygra 9y agoPerhaps similar to Notepad, which has been more or less feature-complete since Windows 2000 or so. I guess it is also internally "deprecated", but will continue to be shipped for quite a while. Microsoft doesn't tend to break such things. In Paint's case, I'd guess the most that will happen is that it will vanish from the Start menu, but the executable will still be there.
- Pxtl 9y ago"Find" in Notepad does not wrap around to the start of the document, and has no option to do so, so in order to search the whole document you have to put the cursor at the start. That's bone-headed behavior and should've been fixed a decade ago.
- pdm55 9y ago"in order to search the whole document you have to put the cursor at the start" Yep, but we all know to do this. Better to keep it with this quirk, than remove this indispensable software. Notepad and Paint are so simple and work fine, long may they remain.
- vxNsr 9y agoHmmm... I had no idea. I think I've run into that bug many times without knowing. I would still rather they don't touch it than start adding features, because we know the first thing they'd add is the ribbon which has no business being on a text editor with 4 options.
- adventist 9y agoHahaha! That was funny. True Indeed that's the first thing they want to add.
- narrowtux 9y agoAlso no drag-and-drop
- Pxtl 9y agoFeature, not a bug, imho. I don't know about other folks, but I've used drag-and-drop accidentally and had to undo it many many more times than I've used it deliberately. if we're going to pick on a standard UI thing that it fails at, I'd say multiple undo.
- Joeri 9y agoNotepad needs support for unix style line endings to be able to function as a basic text editor. As it stands I always install notepad++.
- vram22 9y agoNotepad++ is pretty good, I've used it, both for programming and general text editing. See my comment about Metapad in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14840791 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14840791 It supports both Unix and DOS/Windows line endings (LF and CR+LF). Also a few other options.
- hibbelig 9y agoWill Paint live as long as edlin?
- joshschreuder 9y agoActually I think Notepad got updated recently: https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/6lpj7j/weve_released_cumulative_update_162321004_to_the/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/6lpj7j/weve_rele... > This update should not require you to have to reboot unless you happen to have Notepad.exe open. This update only revs the version of the OS and includes a updated binary version of Notepad.exe and nothing else.
- Sylos 9y agoThen why would they make a public announcement about it? Not like it's seen frequent updates at any point in its lifetime.
- bargl 9y agoThis is a click-bait title. They are adding a new Paint product called Paint3D. Which is probably there to accompany the Surface products which they are trying to sell as designer and drawing products. Either way this headline is very misleading.