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Hell freezes over, MS Paint adds support for layers and PNG transparency (arstechnica.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Didn't they say they were retiring ms paint in 2017 for some other program no one had heard of?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wasn't it something like Paint3D?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Yeah this was during the peak of VR hype when MS sunk a ton of money and effort into HoloLens and Mixed Reality.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

I think they floated something like that, but there was push back.