{"id":9710,"date":"2017-07-24T13:08:19","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T12:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=9710"},"modified":"2017-07-24T13:08:19","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T12:08:19","slug":"the-downside-of-windows-as-a-service-disappearing-features-and-why-i-will-miss-paint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/9710-the-downside-of-windows-as-a-service-disappearing-features-and-why-i-will-miss-paint.html","title":{"rendered":"The downside of \u201cWindows as a service\u201d: disappearing features (and why I will miss Paint)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/help\/4034825\/features-that-are-removed-or-deprecated-in-windows-10-fall-creators-up\" target=\"_blank\">posted<\/a> a list of features that are \u201cremoved or deprecated\u201d in the next major update to Windows 10, called the Fall Creators Update.<\/p>\n<p>The two that caught my eye are Paint, a simple graphics editor whose ancestry goes right back to Windows 1.0 in 1985, and System Image Backup, a means of backing up Windows that preserves applications, settings and documents.<\/p>\n<p>I use Paint constantly. It is ideal for cropping screenshots and photos, where you want a quick result with no need for elaborate image processing. It starts in a blink, lets you resize images while preserving aspect ratio, and supports .BMP, .GIF, .JPG, .PNG and .TIF \u2013 all the most important formats.<\/p>\n<p>I used Paint to crop the following screen, of the backup feature to be removed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/image-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; background-image: none;\" title=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/image_thumb-3.png\" alt=\"image\" width=\"604\" height=\"536\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>System Image Backup is the most complete backup Windows offers. It copies your system drive so that you can restore it to another hard drive, complete with applications and data. By contrast, the \u201cmodern\u201d Windows 10 backup only backs up files and you will need to reinstall and reconfigure the operating system along with any applications if your hard drive fails and you want to get back where you were before. \u201cWe recommend that users use full-disk backup solutions from other vendors,\u201d says Microsoft unhelpfully.<\/p>\n<p>If System Image Backup does stop working, take a look at <a href=\"https:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sysinternals\/ee656415\" target=\"_blank\">Disk2vhd<\/a> which is not entirely dissimilar, but copies the drive to a virtual hard drive; or the third party <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drivesnapshot.de\/\" target=\"_blank\">DriveSnapshot<\/a> which can backup and restore entire drives. Or of course one of many other backup systems.<\/p>\n<p>The bigger picture here is that when Microsoft pitched the advantages of \u201cWindows of a service\u201d, it neglected to mention that features might be taken away as well as added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has posted a list of features that are \u201cremoved or deprecated\u201d in the next major update to Windows 10, called the Fall Creators Update. The two that caught my eye are Paint, a simple graphics editor whose ancestry goes right back to Windows 1.0 in 1985, and System Image Backup, a means of backing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/9710-the-downside-of-windows-as-a-service-disappearing-features-and-why-i-will-miss-paint.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The downside of \u201cWindows as a service\u201d: disappearing features (and why I will miss Paint)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,97],"tags":[586,700,996],"class_list":["post-9710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","category-windows","tag-microsoft","tag-paint","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}