Microsoft has a TON of stuff you can download for free. In some cases you need to go thru that whole validation thing to prove you’ve got a real version of their O/S, but otherwise their plain vanilla free downloads.
One of their apps I was particularly impressed with is Paint.Net. I haven’t downloaded it yet, as I have Photoshop and don’t think I need it, but I highly recommend students and others who can’t afford Photoshop (or CorelPaint or whatever) to give it a try. It looks really good, and has even been optimised for dual-core processors and all that Vista-preferred hardware.
We always knock M$ but in this case it’s great to see that in the midst of it all are some really good freebies.
Now, question… who’s got a fave can’t-do-without-it MS freebie app?
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I’m also lucky enough to have CS2 and a Mac for work, but I will have to check out this list for my home laptop. More than a few of these seem worth downloading.
Paint.net = 0.1% of PS. Its not far away from MSPaint, even Gimp _much_ better. Imossible to draw even simplest design.
Wow,this looks great and for ..FREE!
Sure it might have all the bells and whistles of photoshop but for free it would have plenty takers if they knew about it.
Paint.NET is not made by Microsoft. It was made by a former Microsoft employee, I believe. It is independent software. I use it and it is really good.
paint.net is not a microsoft product damn it!
its an open source project done under the .net platform
and frankly it disapointed me becuase i would have loved to see a paint with layers and basicaly only that.. paint is really good for pixel graphics
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