Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years

Re:Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years by Karunamon on Monday July 24, 2017 @12:10PM (#14839659)

10 yanks away calc.exe and replaces it with the metro version. You have to grab an old copy if you want the original back.

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Re:Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years by FRex on Monday July 24, 2017 @03:56PM (#14842071)

cmd.exe and calc.exe from ReactOS can be used since ReactOS aims to be fully binary compatible. They look a bit bad though.

Or this is a good opportunity to use tools not built into the OS or write own replacements. It's a bit silly to have calc program dictated by the OS version.

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Re:Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years by simon83 on Monday July 24, 2017 @02:11PM (#14841079)

I wonder if you could get into legal trouble if you start to re-distribute calc.exe from older Windows version, as a free download. Probably yes, but it would look so ridiculous if MS lawyers would go after a random person doing that.

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Re:Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years by wila on Monday July 24, 2017 @06:17PM (#14843254)

The thing is that your Windows 8/7/Vista/XP versions of calc don't even run on Windows 10. The only thing you can run is the Calculator Plus that was released for XP. Of course Microsoft did remove the download for that one.

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