Automated background removal was also added recently.

      • @jadegear@lemm.ee
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        810 months ago

        If you remove mspaint.exe then Windows will refuse to boot. It’s true, I knew a guy!

        • @Aux@lemmy.world
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          410 months ago

          Jokes aside you can boot Windows without Windows at all. By that I mean you can boot Windows NT without Win32.

    • @Lyrl@lemm.ee
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      1110 months ago

      They did. I guess the community outcry was so loud even Microsoft had to heed it and reverse course.

        • @Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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          210 months ago

          I honestly didn’t realize I had been installing it… I went to boot paint.net and was surprised I couldn’t find it on my work computer… that’s how critical it is… or how often I don’t change personal hardware

    • @Piers@lemmy.world
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      510 months ago

      No. Wordpad is the one being discontinued. Paint is one of several programs that can now be uninstalled from Windows by end users without any special tricks.

    • kamenLady.
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      410 months ago

      I read that WordPad also was being discontinued, in the same article stating the same about MS Paint iirc