![]() ![]() With the launch of Windows Vista in 2007 Microsoft decided it was time to fix this long-standing deficiency in Windows’ tooling and bring this essential feature into the 21st century, and thus, the Snipping Tool was born. But since most applications couldn’t accept the image data directly, for most people those were your only options. That would cause a bitmap image of the current screen to be placed on the Windows clipboard where it could be pasted into something like Microsoft Paint if you wanted to save the image, or something like Microsoft Word to be cropped for a document. It was simple to use, by pressing the otherwise useless “PrtScr” key that existed on most PC keyboards. The old screenshot method was a blunt hammer, lacking nuance and offering virtually no real options for image manipulation. This is the era where the tools were so bad they live on as a disturbing sense memory in so many minds to this day. So let’s cast our minds back to “the old days” of Windows XP and the earlier 16 bit versions of Windows. ![]() The much maligned Windows Vista would provide a great new feature – the Snipping Tool. Thankfully things were about to improve in the Windows ecosystem too, and the story has a bit of an unlikely hero. I’m not super familiar with how this is done on the various Linux desktop distros, but I would imagine the capabilities were similar, even back then almost 20 years ago. My first time really diving into Mac OS back in the early 2000s and was very pleasantly surprised that my Macbook did a much better job of capturing screens than my old XP machine. For a long time, the screenshot story on Windows was pretty poor. My primary computing environment has been, and still is Windows. In an ever-evolving technology landscape something that has remained a need for many people regardless of platform is a reliable screenshot tool. ![]()
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