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Microsoft is killing the Windows Paint 3D app after 8 years
- mepian 2y agoIs it possible to reinstall it without Microsoft Store?
- Zecc 2y agoTFA says: > If you remove the app, you can reinstall it from the Microsoft Store until November 4, 2024. After that date, Paint 3D will no longer be available for download
- katzinsky 2y agoIs it possible to archive executables from the Microsoft store the way you can with most apps? (Sorry I haven't used Windows for almost a decade now.) It would be a shame to lose it, I'm sure some people use it.
- emrah 2y agoWould MS opensource it and let it live on?
- _xerces_ 2y agoI hate the changes to the regular Paint app. They added stuff like layers and now it is really hard to do simple things like cut and paste and move parts of the image around because now you get a transparent hole in the image. I used to use it a lot to touch up or fix things in images of Excel graphs for slides, etc.
- efilife 2y agoThe regular paint has changed?
- ThrowawayTestr 2y agoI've literally never used it. Anyone use it regularly?
- MrVandemar 2y agoYes. I work in a medical practice as a receptionist/guy-who-knows-IT-stuff and the system is locked down pretty hard by the sysadmin (for good reasons). Sometimes I need to crop a photo, or a how-to screenshot for our wiki, or circle something in red on a screenshot etc. MS Paint is what we got, and it works fine for small jobs like that. I'd be sad to see it go for that reason. I have a sneakernet connection to a isolated linux box with GIMP and Inkscape on it, but MS Paint often fulfills 95% of requirements with less overhead.
- derrikcurran 2y agoLooks like Paint is staying, just not Paint 3D.
- addicted 2y agoThis is Paint 3D for making 3D figures. It looks like you’re using regular MS Paint which will almost certainly be around till the end of Windows. But don’t feel too bad. Creating confusing product names is the things Microsoft has always been the best at.
- mrinfinitiesx 2y agoAt this point, nothing Microsoft offers is open source to my knowledge. Screenshots users screens to train AI, has ads in the start menu. Krita and Gimp are nice, so is Inkscape. Pinta on linux desktop for the MSPaint but better experience. Things like Adobe Photoshop charge monthly subscription fees then charge you to CANCEL your subscription. Weighing it out, Windows is spyware. Funny it advises people to switch back to 'Paint' - Thanks, ol reliable since '98?
- _mlbt 2y agoMicrosoft has tons of open source software out there... https://github.com/microsoft https://github.com/microsoft They are also one of the top contributors to the Linux kernel.
- mrinfinitiesx 2y agoOh. Today I learned.
- ChocolateGod 2y agoIt really has changed since the Ballmer years.
- happymellon 2y agoAren't some of these things misleading? I don't know of anyone who uses VS Code without extensions, and some of those produced by Microsoft are closed source. Can you really do meaningful Python work in VS Code without the Python extension, for example?
- Nab443 2y agoWhat they contribute mainly profits windows and/or wsl.