<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>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>taspeotis</author><text>I have downloaded free apps from the Windows Store without an account twice in the past month.&lt;p&gt;These are both &amp;quot;desktop bridge&amp;quot; applications and not UWP apps so perhaps that is the difference. They were both free.&lt;p&gt;I was preparing to sign in after clicking &amp;quot;Get&amp;quot; but ... it just worked.</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>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>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></comment>