Makes sense. Microsoft is missing out on recurring revenue. They purged the other image tool (the MS Office one that let you view TIFFs), and now they're killing paint.
I'm sure there will be a Windows 10 Creators Pack for Creation for Personal Users (not to be confused with a creators update) available on 4 different channels for $6.99/mo. The stable branch will not have the ability to open JPEGs or save to a format other than clip art, but a new revisions will be delivered daily.
We jest, but bullshit like that is entirely possible.
Windows is a product in decline in many ways, and a public company still needs to grow revenue. Users can (and are) migrating to modern platforms, but many of the organizations using it are doing so because they have to, will continue to have that need for a decade or more.
My colleagues at work who run apps on the IBM Mainframe and POWER server platforms plan their operational cadences around peak periods where they lease access to CPU cores and memory on their servers. They only get to access about 25% of the hardware without a meter running. Microsoft can and probably will do the same conceptual thing to extract more dollars.
I'm sure there will be a Windows 10 Creators Pack for Creation for Personal Users (not to be confused with a creators update) available on 4 different channels for $6.99/mo. The stable branch will not have the ability to open JPEGs or save to a format other than clip art, but a new revisions will be delivered daily.