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Hell freezes over, MS Paint adds support for layers and PNG transparency (arstechnica.com)
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[–] ares35@kbin.social 40 points 1 year ago (4 children)

meanwhile, wordpad.. probably used by more people over the age of seven than paint is, getting axed.

microsoft has office subs to sell, but they do not have a photoshop or gimp or even a paint.net alternative to sell.

[–] MrLuemasG@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've literally never met anybody that used Wordpad, whereas I know a lot of tech normies that'll use MS Paint for quick memes and things

[–] pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

I used it back in my Windows days. Out of the box, I think it's the only way to do rich text on Windows. Also (used to be anyway) one of the less resource intensive options.

You know, for when you've got Napster, Winamp (with visualisation), ICQ, and MSN all up and barely running. You don't want to have to run, like, WordPerfect at the same time! Your MP3s will start skipping :p

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They can cut WordPad, if they kill Notepad then IDK what to say...

[–] PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Notepad++ FTW!

[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Fellow notepad.exe aficionado here as well

[–] Classy@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago

I've been using Notepad++ for a good while now and it's proven to be a great alternative to MS WordPad.

[–] kaesaecracker@leminal.space 6 points 1 year ago

They created WordPad because of antitrust issues and never changed it. Try opening a Word document created by a recent version, it's pretty useless today.

Notepad rules though, it even got UTF8 support recently-ish! /s

[–] AndreTelevise@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think they're just pushing people to use OneNote (which is free).

[–] theRealBassist@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Free with lots of features stripped out

[–] AndreTelevise@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly not that bad if I want to use it for notetaking. But not as full-featured.

[–] theRealBassist@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yea that's totally fair. I'm just bitter cuz it makes running my D&D sessions harder lol