If you read the article instead of the headline…….. it’s adding a fairly standard mark to AI generated images to let’s others know, in the same manner a giant swath of the GebAI industry has agreed to.

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trickypr 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I think their point is that paint shouldn’t have any GenAI features (or any new features other than compatibility)

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SideQuark an hour ago | parent [-]

Yes, using original paint in 16 colors saved to PCX in 640x480 should be enough for anybody.

Or we could let owners of properties add features as they see fit.

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qu4z-2 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I don't so much mind about Paint, but modern Notepad is completely unusable. We had "Notepad but with Rich Text formatting" -- it was called WordPad and no-one used it so they eventually deleted it.

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brian-armstrong 12 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

The people who still use Windows yet complain about this are quite confusing to me. There's been every indication that it will keep going like this for years now, and the cost of switching is just not that high. If you're still riding that train it's time to just embrace it.

	▲	protocolture a few seconds ago \| parent [-]
		>The people who still use Windows yet complain about this are quite confusing to me. What confuses me is how people think theres anything close to an alternative for corporate environments. Windows isnt Windows. Windows is the best supported OS by the Microsoft cloud stack. They get away with this sort of nonsense because large corps have nowhere to go. >the cost of switching is just not that high. Lol, lmao even. The cost of switching one laptop to linux is quite low. The cost of taking an enterprise using Microsoft everywhere to linux is something else entirely.

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aizk an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Not to mention that notepad had a 7.8 CVE (an RCE) earlier this year -- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-20841

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brudgers an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

People used Wordpad and thus other people had trouble opening RTF files.

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scythe 35 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

>Notepad but with Rich Text formatting

TextEdit on Mac uses RTF. Perhaps that's why Windows switched.

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CodeMage 27 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

> Yes, using original paint in 16 colors saved to PCX in 640x480 should be enough for anybody.

There's a wide, wide gap between adding features that your users need and adding features that you want to cram down their throats to promote other products that you want them to use.

> Or we could let owners of properties add features as they see fit.

Or we could let paying users offer legitimate criticism of the products they use, without essentially telling them to shut up.