In a late-day blog yesterday, Saunders wrote that the company had “seen an incredible outpouring of support and nostalgia around MS Paint” following reports that it was being retired. Microsoft Paint has been part of the Windows experience for decades, and while the company is moving ahead with removing it as a bundled piece of software, it won’t be eliminated completely, announced Microsoft’s Megan Saunders, general manager of the company’s 3D for Everyone Initiative and Windows Experiences unit. After it was discovered that the software giant was removing the rudimentary image editor from future versions of Windows, users took to Twitter and other social networks to bemoan Microsoft’s decision to ditch one of the operating system’s most enduring features. You could scan a pen on your desk, upload it to Paint, change the color of its body, set the digitized version down on your desk through HoloLens, switch headsets and see what it looks like in VR, and then decide (because pens are meant to be tangible objects) that you want to 3-D print the new design.News that Microsoft Paint wasn’t long for this world caused a bit of an uproar online and across social media this week. In Microsoft’s world, objects are now format agnostic. The end goal is to allow your creations to live across Windows devices, whether it's your desktop, phone, HoloLens or VR headset. In Microsoft's most captivating demo of the day, you watch as Megan Saunders, lead designer on Paint 3D, grabs a scan of a sandcastle on stage and uploads it to Paint as a 3-D model. Any object that you doodle in Paint 3-D can be rendered as a 3D image, and objects created in Minecraft can be 3-D printed or pulled into the program to be manipulated. In the new software you can choose from a library of existing 3-D shapes and objects like spheres, cones, cubes, and dogs, or grab from its online database, Remix3D, of community-made designs. It's designed to be as intuitive as the original MS Paint, which is to say both your grandmother and your 4-year-old cousin should be able to use it without any problems.
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