Windows 10: Microsoft Is Updating Paint With New Features And Refreshed Interface

Have to agree. Happy with paint in its current guise. Seems like another 'change for the sake of change' things and what's the odds whatever they do will either break it or intro bugs

 

I'm not an artist by any means and my only use for Paint is for when I take screenshots and then wish to crop or annotate them. I doubt I would ever use the new features being put into Paint but it does look like a cool app that would be fun to play with a few times.

 

That basically all I do with paint. I like that it's simple and easy to use.

 

I just tried out the new version of Paint. It'll take some getting used to, but it's pretty nice overall. Although I really only use Paint to edit screenshots, so your mileage may vary.

 

Where did you find it, in the Store ?

 

No, it's a leaked version of the UWP app that came from MS testers, so I'm not sure I can share it here. Seems to be fully functional though, and pretty easy to use. It currently goes by the app name Paint Preview.

 

http://www.windowscentral.com/get-ne...-app-windows10

 

Thanks for the link. I'll try that out.

Jeff

 

Tnx, just got it installed. Now to see what it does.
First "Masterpiece":

 

Keeps crashing on me. I'll hafta play with it later

 

I wish Paint, Windows Media Player, and other applets would be removed from Windows. I don't think they should be included in an OS, they just cause more bloat.

They should be made stand-alone and available in the store.

 

The good-old DOS system didn't include much in the way of bloat but then we couldn't do much productive work with it. It took the advent of Windows 1 to get things more useful and it has been progressing ever since. Even the many versions of Linux contain and install what some folks would call bloat but by and large most of that bloat makes the computer more useful. Some of the bloat does reduce the expense for many users by not having to buy 3rd-party software but it all hinges upon what a user really needs and can use.

 

I agree.. Linux come with more "bloat" than Windows does but the tools are rather good and it does save time installing them later on. I think that Paint, notepad.. Ect are great tools and I use them all the time. Great time savers by not having to install them or find third party tools.

 

I can think of 3 or 4 FREE paint programs better than MSPaint. In fact, I can think of free apps to replace all of the Windows applets.

Maybe there should be a "Windows Lite" version that has just the OS, and a premium Windows that has all the bloat your heart desires.

 

That or something like that was my idea too. Just an OS with minimal interface and no applets or programlets or wachamacallts past what's needed to run system. Windows like that would be cheaper too because they appear free to us but somebody had to be payed to develop them or MS would have to pay royalties to somebody else as they do now. I must admit that in past I used to replace them regularly but later on I either got used to them or they got better. Most I use are calculator, paint and notepad or word pad as poor man's Word. Sticky notes and Snipping tools are something I used 3rd party for but now they are pretty good and usable.