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Re:MS Paint is here to stay by merijnv on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @03:55AM (#14845953)
> 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=...

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Re:MS Paint is here to stay by garaetjjte on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @04:27AM (#14846112)
That doesn't make sense, it could be run on WoW64. (even Visual Studio is 32-bit)
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Re:MS Paint is here to stay by anonymfus on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @05:44AM (#14846421)
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.)

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