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This looks intriguing, let's see how it fares:

• [url]http://www.mspaintxp.com/[/url] author wrote:Paint XP for Windows 7 Standalone [is the] old MS Paint program that allows you to get your old XP Paint interface in Windows 7.

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  [url]https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/24/microsoft-paint-kill-off-after-32-years-graphics-editing-program[/url] author wrote:Now Microsoft has announced that, alongside Outlook Express, Reader app and Reading list, Microsoft Paint has been signalled for death having been added to the "features that are removed or deprecated in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update" list.

Only, it looks like the news of MS Paint's death have been greatly exaggerated:

• [url]https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/25/microsoft-paint-saved-windows-store[/url] author wrote:After the tremendous outpouring of love across the internet for arguably the greatest Windows program ever[!], Microsoft has announced that it will save MS Paint by putting it on the Windows Store.

Midas wrote:...it looks like the news of MS Paint's death have been greatly exaggerated

Thought they were just acknowledging that a program seeing only the most minimum of updates until Vista wasn't really being used by anyone. I also definitely would have taken the opportunity to assert "why freeware matters" yet again.

webfork wrote:I also definitely would have taken the opportunity to assert "why freeware matters" yet again.

• In full agreement.

Midas wrote:

webfork wrote:I also definitely would have taken the opportunity to assert "why freeware matters" yet again.

• In full agreement.

Thanks

I should also add that, if there was this much of a reaction to losing the old program, maybe I don't have a good idea of what people want in a basic image editor. Especially given the many anti-ribbon folks here on the forums, PaintXP is a welcome submission.