Comments on: Windows 7 M3 Build 6780: The New Paint UI!

By: interior paint colors

interior paint colors — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 04:44:00 +0000

i love the colors. but there are still some bugs.

By: Ted

Ted — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 07:39:00 +0000

For myself, I think the ribbon looks cool in demos, AND YET is a waste of space and slows me down. If something took that much space, but was easier to use, then I suppose it would be worth it. It is amazing that there isn't a choice to turn it off. I have not ever been as unproductive moving between versions of office as to Office 2007.

Software vendors who made the interface more intuitive and useful rather than pretty will get my $.

By: Richard Drysdall

Richard Drysdall — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 04:37:00 +0000

Paint is supposed to be an entry-level application – it has to be simple to use. The core users of paint don’t want the interface to change (much) – they’re glad the interface stays the same, version after version after version.
All you people saying that Paint doesn’t have enough features are not the target audience.

By: Derek

Derek — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:08:00 +0000

Hmm. Interesting. Too bad I never use Wordpad.

By: punkcoder

punkcoder — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:23:00 +0000

We use the office ribbon in our application, and while I think it’s an interesting UI, I think it came along at the wrong time. These days all laptops and most LCDs are going to wide screen. Just as we lose height real estate on our screens, and gain width, Microsoft creates something that takes up a lot of space height wise, giving you less screen real estate.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:53:00 +0000

Personally I think the look is awful. I thought Gnome wasted screen real estate but Win7 is going to take the cake!

By: Stephen Chapman

Stephen Chapman — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:20:00 +0000

Pete: …because 3MB of wasted disk space usage is such an atrocity these days. lol. I’m sure there are much more useless things sitting around on your harddrive taking up 3MB than Paint.

Personally, I use Paint and WordPad all the time. I am a writer; I write daily. Do you know what I use to write in? WordPad. Arcane as it may be, I find it to be worth it’s weight in MB and then some.

As far as Paint goes, there isn’t a whole lot I can’t do with it. Sure, I understand where a person like you feels like you feel about it but I’ve worked with MS Paint for so long that I am way more productive with it than anything else out there. Can I use it for ALL of my photo-editing needs? No. But I can for 75-80% of them. If I can get updated versions of both of these “arcane” applications in Windows 7, I’m a happy camper!

By: Pete

Pete — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:05:00 +0000

Who cares about Paint anymore? They should have done away with it long ago and bought Corel or they should just buy Paint.Net as a stop gap now.

Wordpad? When was the last time you used Wordpad other than to open a large file or one with pictures on a machine that didn't have a real text or RTF editing tool installed.

Microsoft needs to get rid of both of them and offer something useful instead of wasting development time and dollars on such arcane and mostly useless products. Put something good in the box or don't put anything at all. And make them optional for crying out loud. Who wants to waste 3 MB of disk space on Paint.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:07:00 +0000

A new user interface is useless without any new application features. I wonder, did they change anything in code?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 04:40:00 +0000

Stupid design choice to reduce the design area in the shortest dimension on most displays.

Apparently in the rush to jam the ribbon into apps, they forgot why it was on the side of the display in the first place.