Microsoft tried to kill Paint in Windows for a successor nobody wanted, then killed the successor

Paint never got close to being Illustrator. It was simply there whenever somebody needed to draw something, paste a screenshot, resize an image, or make a terrible school project. Paint goes back to Windows 1.0 in 1985, and Microsoft said in 2017 that after 32 years, it had “a lot of fans.” By the company’s own count, more than 100 million people...