Absolutely.
Paint is by a long shot, Microsoft's best product.
It's easy to build since it's codebase is pretty small
and they haven't changed it much since it was introduced.
So it's rock solid.
IDK why they're fixing what ain't broke.
Quickly taking a look at the most used products where I work...
MS Office Installer https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iI...
MS Word (I stopped here) https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iI...
Darn, it would be nice if MS was forced to break up in to different product divisions so that their Office product would be released on various platforms.
It probably got removed in Windows 2000, when GDI gained alpha channel support, as the dithering mode was specified in upper byte of 32b COLORREF, which probably got at least internally repurposed as alpha (also, alphablending dithered surfaces is not exactly sane thing to do).
To see this, go to https://classicreload.com/windows-31.html and then open Accessories > Paintbrush.
In Paintbrush you had palette of 20-ish colors, which were or were not dithered depending on whether they were displayable by your graphics adapter. (The default palette consisted of 16 default EGA/VGA colors and few dithered ones, with particularly notable burgundy-ish color that almost didn't look dithered). In the control panel you could set arbitrary 24b RGB colors for user interface elements which were dithered in exactly the same way.
Interesting thing related to this is that Windows 3.1 had significantly different default color scheme depending on what graphics driver you selected during installation. The really default color scheme was similar to OS/2 2.x (pastel colors, active window title with black text on light blue background, different background color for MDI master and slave windows) and significantly different one was used for graphics drivers with 16 or less colors (ie. the one that everybody remembers, with white text on dark blue or black background for active window title bar). Obviously the reason for this was to eliminate dithering in default color scheme.
On the other hand, this was not applied consistently. Windows 3.1 post installation tutorial essentially introduced the pastel yellow (also used in the default color scheme for MDI window background) as the "help popup color", even thought this color was dithered on VGA. Another inconsistency was that Windows 3.1 shipped with CTRL3D.DLL and some (2 or so) applications that used it. (Until Windows 10's consistent Metro-ish style I regarded CTRL3D as the most consistent UI that Windows ever had, because most applications consistently used this same UI style. The Windows 95 HIG mandated style is also nice, but it was never used consistently used by anyone, not even Microsoft itself).
God I feel old. Please tell me I'm not the only one who uses dosshell, or hacked gorilla.bas
I've taken to firing up an instance of IDLE instead - which is actually a little nicer in the end
Or this is a good opportunity to use tools not built into the OS or write own replacements. It's a bit silly to have calc program dictated by the OS version.
Genuinely curious, why?
What is the processor support issue?
If any knows any other good simple programs for bitwise operations and binary conversion then I'm all ears.
It's sad, because by themselves programs like Paint and Calculator are simple. But, when done well, they come together to improve the quality of life while using Windows.
No telemetry.