
Even as recently as last year's Windows spring update added new screenshot functionality. Windows has had screen-printing capabilities since the first PCs in the 1980s (their text-based option differed from today’s raster screenshots). It’s astonishing how long it has taken to perfect this simple capability. Nearly every computer user occasionally needs to take a screenshot, if only to share what they’re seeing on the screen with a colleague or external business.

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