On my computer I have a simple calculator program. I can go to the view menu and change it to 'scientific'. It then has loads more buttons. I can also choose an

On my computer I have a simple calculator program. I can go to the view menu and change it to 'scientific'. It then has loads more buttons. I can also choose another mode to make it more useful for finance things. This interface was pretty much the same with the desktop calculators used by schoolkids, if you wanted radians you could change the mode. If you wanted statistics you could change the mode. Normally the basic mode was what you wanted. With MS Paint and the decades it has been part of Windows they could have evolved it. They could have kept the 'simple' view for the simple mode it is and had a photo editor mode that was a full-featured Photoshop clone for those that wanted it. There are ways to iterate a product and keep it simple. What is shocking is how Microsoft have kept the tools deliberately backwards, e.g. Notepad and Paint. Notepad couldn't open CR/LF line endings correctly, why not listen to user needs and put the functionality in?