Hell freezes over, MS Paint adds support for layers and PNG transparency

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Automated background removal was also added recently.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

Free with lots of features stripped out

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

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