Re:MS Paint is here to stay
by toast0 on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @02:05AM
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I'm not sure I would consider paint at the forefront of bloat, given that the base OS runs in the tens of gigs. I wouldn't be surprised if the default background image is larger than mspaint.exe. To say nothing of the store apps they auto install for you.
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It's not necessarily the size of the executable but rather that it's another executable the part of the build and test process of the base image.
Pinball had to be removed for this sort of reason.
> Pinball had to be removed for this sort of reason.
What? No. It was removed because it was a 32bit application written by a 3rd party and there was a hard to fix bug on 64bit windows that made it unplayable, so they dropped it.
Source: Raymond Chen - https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20121218-00/?p=...
Re:MS Paint is here to stay
by garaetjjte on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @04:27AM
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That doesn't make sense, it could be run on WoW64. (even Visual Studio is 32-bit)
Visual Studio is not a part of Windows.
From Raymond Chen's answer to this question in the first comment to the same blog post:
> That would have been even more work, because there was at the time no infrastructure in Setup for having 32-bit-only components. (And then automatically uninstalling it when WOW64 was disabled.)
I was under the impression pinball was removed because it was basically unsupportable and too had too much low level hacky graphics code to port across changes in the graphics subsystems. A shame though, it was a fun game.