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Microsoft Killing MS Paint from Windows



"MS Paint" the only application we are well aware of it, when we started using the very first computer and when the life exists with out any internet. Still remember the days when we used the draw the pictures of trees, houses and lakes when we were in our school computer lab classes? 

Microsoft introduced the first version of Paint with Windows 1.0, in November 1985. Now Microsoft has taken a cruel decision of removing this application from the further versions of Windows 10. The upcoming Windows 10 Creators Update which is expected to go into broad release in a few weeks will remove this application since Microsoft introduced another application called "Paint 3D" as a windows 10 Add on application which is similar to MS paint but with enhanced features.

Apart from MS Paint, Microsoft also decided to depreciate many other applications listed below.

Deprecated Features

  • IIS 6 Management Compatibility
  • IIS Digest Authentication
  • Microsoft Paint
  • RSA/AES Encryption for IIS
  • Sync Your Settings
  • Screen saver functionality in Themes
  • System Image Backup (SIB) Solution
  • TLS RC4 Ciphers
  • Trusted Platform Module (TPM): TPM.msc and TPM RemoteManagement
  • Trusted Platform Module (TPM) Remote Management
  • Windows Hello for Business deployment that uses System Center Configuration Manager
  • Windows PowerShell 2.0

Removed Features

  • 3D Builder
  • Apndatabase.xml
  • Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET)
  • Outlook Express
  • Reader app
  • Reading List
  • Screen saver functionality in Themes
  • Syskey.exe
  • TCP Offload Engine
  • Tile Data Layer
  • Trusted Platform Module (TPM) Owner Password Management