Microsoft announce that MS Paint has had a reprieve of execution – sort of
Yesterday the internet went nuts for the story that MS Paint was for the chop – it even was the number one story on the Guardian for a while leading to many tweets and hot takes largely due to nostalgia.
Anyway, to milk a bit more love out of the story @Microsoft today have announced, “MS Paint is here to stay, it will just have a new home soon, in the Windows Store where it will be available for free.”
Which, as we all know, if you put something as optional it’s a way of killing something slowly.
Default or death as we say in Microsoft Update-land. (We don’t, but it’s true.)
So c’mon Microsoft. If you really mean it, leave it a default app.
As being bumped off into an app store instead of being a default install is a type of death.
Anyway. Here’s our fav 8 tweets on the story:
1
Rest in peace mspaint, you made memes possible, and therefore revolutionary politics
— will to flower (@mikedelic) July 24, 2017
2.
RIP MS Paint. RIP our childhoods pic.twitter.com/UpNYEDe4cA
— Ramsha (@Economistaken) July 24, 2017
3.
Children of the future will never know the joy of spending hours doing this on Microsoft Paint #MSpaint pic.twitter.com/IY6kDxPdc4
— Fiona (@McDoFi) July 24, 2017
4.
Brother Graw Mad is inconsolable over the loss of MS Paint. Let's all pour a little libation outta our Paint Bucket Tools today. pic.twitter.com/8B2yYB8DwM
— Strong Bad (@StrongBadActual) July 24, 2017
5.
RIP ms paint you showed everyone that software does not need to be defined by its marital status
— ~ (@daniel_barker) July 24, 2017
6.
https://twitter.com/yeahmahasiswa/status/889638511913177088
7.
Our team is working to acquire the MS Paint IP in order to produce a dark, gritty reboot / origin story. pic.twitter.com/xadiSNiP9k
— Devolver Digital (@devolverdigital) July 24, 2017
8.
Shame MS Paint is going away. Such an amazing tool to promote your brand pic.twitter.com/5YYKjRSgBM
— Whataburger® (@Whataburger) July 24, 2017
We also note that Outlook Express is for the chop but nobody gives a stuff about that.
Source: Twitter/@Microsoft
