{"id":221346,"date":"2017-07-24T12:29:55","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T10:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=221346"},"modified":"2017-07-24T12:30:37","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T10:30:37","slug":"microsoft-considers-killing-paint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/221346-microsoft-considers-killing-paint.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft considers killing Paint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has listed Paint in a list of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/help\/4034825\/features-that-are-removed-or-deprecated-in-windows-10-fall-creators-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deprecated features<\/a><\/strong> in the Windows 10 Fall Creator&#8217;s Update.<\/p>\n<p>Paint being listed as &#8220;deprecated&#8221; means it is no longer in active development and may be removed from future releases.<\/p>\n<p>Other deprecated features include System Image Backup, various IIS features, and Windows Powershell 2.0.<\/p>\n<p>Features being completely removed with the update include Outlook Express, the screen-saver\u00a0functionality\u00a0in\u00a0Themes, and the 3D Builder app.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft revealed the Fall Creators Update earlier this year, which was set to include\u00a0Timeline,\u00a0Pick Up Where You Left Off, Cloud Clipboard, and\u00a0OneDrive Files On-Demand.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft executive Joe Belfiore said in June, however, that Timeline won&#8217;t make it into the update.\u00a0&#8220;We\u2019re planning for it to be in early Insider builds shortly after the Fall Creators Update is out,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Timeline, combined with Pick Up Where You Left Off, will let you switch between tasks on multiple devices &#8211; including those running Android and iOS.<\/p>\n<p>It also lets you look &#8220;back in time&#8221; to find what you were working on and resume that session.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/5\/11\/15610610\/microsoft-windows-10-fall-creators-update-features\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Verge reported<\/a><\/strong> that Microsoft plans to release the Fall Creators Update for Windows 10 in September.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/218062-windows-10-timeline-feature-delayed.html\">Windows 10 Timeline feature delayed<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has listed Paint in a list of deprecated features.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":131398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[123,44796],"class_list":["post-221346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-microsoft","tag-ms-paint"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221358,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221346\/revisions\/221358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}