MS Paint is here to stay

Re:MS Paint is here to stay by taspeotis on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @02:52AM (#14845678)

I have downloaded free apps from the Windows Store without an account twice in the past month.

These are both "desktop bridge" applications and not UWP apps so perhaps that is the difference. They were both free.

I was preparing to sign in after clicking "Get" but ... it just worked.

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Re:MS Paint is here to stay by tonyedgecombe on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @03:31AM (#14845840)

I think it must have changed recently because you never used to be able to do that.

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Re:MS Paint is here to stay by basch on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @11:49AM (#14848661)

this is a key people are ignoring. by moving the win32 mspaint from a native file on the filesystem to app-v/Centennial, it will be able to run on non-x86 hardware with emulation. in two years if Windows 10 S and Qualcomm dominate, having legacy apps available in the store will be a bonus not a burden. it will be similar to the OSX/Rosetta days.

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Re:MS Paint is here to stay by asveikau on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @11:55AM (#14848708)

This is an artificial disinction made only by their confusing policy. There is no technical reason that Store has to be a gateway for emulating x86.

And I am pretty sure for Windows RT they just compiled mspaint.exe for ARM.

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