<story><title>MS Paint is here to stay</title><url>https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2017/07/24/ms-paint-stay/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skrebbel</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Also my corporate windows 10 laptop has the entire window store and modern app infrastructure disabled&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wow that&amp;#x27;s... What?&lt;p&gt;For all its warts, the Windows Store is a secure app delivery platform. Doesn&amp;#x27;t disabling it merely encourage downloading zipped executables from sleazy unencrypted websites?</text></item><item><author>OkGoDoIt</author><text>Additionally you can&amp;#x27;t download apps off the windows store unless you sign up for &amp;#x2F;into a Microsoft account, which is a much bigger pain than simply downloading the first app you find searching on Google. Also my corporate windows 10 laptop has the entire window store and modern app infrastructure disabled, meaning I would not be able to access MS Paint.</text></item><item><author>opdahl</author><text>What is, and has been great about MS Paint is that no matter what Windows machine I have been on, I know that I have had it available. No matter if it&amp;#x27;s my old grandma&amp;#x27;s computer, if I have needed to quickly do something simple with an image, MS Paint has always been there for me. Now that will no longer be the case. If I have to download and install it on the computer before I use it, then what is the point? It will be faster to just google &amp;quot;MS paint online free&amp;quot; and click the first link.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>morrbo</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t understand the shock here? Large corporations don&amp;#x27;t want users installing random apps. I don&amp;#x27;t see why an NHS laptop, for example, should have Bejewelled installed, or some dodgy app which gives permissions to the user&amp;#x27;s drives, and uploads files.&lt;p&gt;Similarly, though admittedly not a problem in the same way with Windows store apps, to Chrome extensions. Those working in secretive environments with naive users shouldn&amp;#x27;t have something like &amp;quot;Youtube auto-hd&amp;quot; installed, which will feedback every single website they visit to some shady third party analytics company. IMO this is why having even the concept of these apps inside a &amp;quot;secure&amp;quot; (re. enterprise) version of Windows is a massive oversight. I will admit that this is not a problem in the LTSB branch of Windows 10 Enterprise; I had the disabled apps magically re-enable themselves 3 times after &amp;quot;updates&amp;quot; on non-LTSB before switching back over.&lt;p&gt;Sorry to rant, but in summation, don&amp;#x27;t be shocked when corporate users want their laptops to be as restricted and purely for work as possible.</text></comment>
<story><title>MS Paint is here to stay</title><url>https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2017/07/24/ms-paint-stay/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skrebbel</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Also my corporate windows 10 laptop has the entire window store and modern app infrastructure disabled&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wow that&amp;#x27;s... What?&lt;p&gt;For all its warts, the Windows Store is a secure app delivery platform. Doesn&amp;#x27;t disabling it merely encourage downloading zipped executables from sleazy unencrypted websites?</text></item><item><author>OkGoDoIt</author><text>Additionally you can&amp;#x27;t download apps off the windows store unless you sign up for &amp;#x2F;into a Microsoft account, which is a much bigger pain than simply downloading the first app you find searching on Google. Also my corporate windows 10 laptop has the entire window store and modern app infrastructure disabled, meaning I would not be able to access MS Paint.</text></item><item><author>opdahl</author><text>What is, and has been great about MS Paint is that no matter what Windows machine I have been on, I know that I have had it available. No matter if it&amp;#x27;s my old grandma&amp;#x27;s computer, if I have needed to quickly do something simple with an image, MS Paint has always been there for me. Now that will no longer be the case. If I have to download and install it on the computer before I use it, then what is the point? It will be faster to just google &amp;quot;MS paint online free&amp;quot; and click the first link.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wolfgke</author><text>&amp;gt; For all its warts, the Windows Store is a secure app delivery platform. Doesn&amp;#x27;t disabling it merely encourage downloading zipped executables from sleazy unencrypted websites?&lt;p&gt;In a corporate environment in many cases it is undesired that users install applications. So of course one disables Windows Store. Additionally one prohibits downloading zips etc. I have read of a way how in Windows one can set that files created&amp;#x2F;downloaded by users cannot be executed, which is also a desired configuration in many corporate environments.</text></comment>