Paint got a significant overhaul with Windows 7 and somewhere in between it got the ability to save/load PNG, GIF and JPEG.
Command Prompt got a significant overhaul in Vista, which broke drag & drop of files as collateral damage, which was subsequently fixed in Windows 7 again.
Which all comes back to what Raymond notes in that blog entry: If you change how things work underneath no one notices. Heck, even if you change how things look on the outside no one notices, apparently. Paint 20 years ago looked and worked very differently from now.
Paint got a significant overhaul with Windows 7 and somewhere in between it got the ability to save/load PNG, GIF and JPEG.
Command Prompt got a significant overhaul in Vista, which broke drag & drop of files as collateral damage, which was subsequently fixed in Windows 7 again.
Which all comes back to what Raymond notes in that blog entry: If you change how things work underneath no one notices. Heck, even if you change how things look on the outside no one notices, apparently. Paint 20 years ago looked and worked very differently from now.