Love Living In A Timeline Where MS Paint Has A Login Screen. What Went Wrong With Microsoft?

Remember when you could just... open Paint and draw? Those were simpler times. Now Microsoft wants you to sign in with your Microsoft account just to scribble some pixels on a canvas. It's like needing a passport to use a crayon.

The SpongeBob "Caveman" meme format captures the sheer absurdity perfectly—primitive brain trying to comprehend why a 30-year-old bitmap editor that literally just pushes RGB values around needs cloud integration and user authentication. Next thing you know, they'll add AI-powered brush strokes and a subscription tier for the color picker.

This is peak modern Microsoft: take something that worked fine since Windows 3.1, "modernize" it by shoving Azure AD authentication down its throat, and call it innovation. Paint used to be 2MB of pure simplicity. Now it probably phones home more than Windows Telemetry.