UPDATE: MS Paint has NOT been discontinued, it seems, as Microsoft has responded to the outpouring of nostalgic grief around the basic PC art program's demise after 32 years. Instead, it is shifting ...

Good news for MS Paint fans: Microsoft says the popular computer graphics software app will live on in its Windows Store. In a statement published late Monday, Microsoft confirmed it will continue to ...

Stand down, everyone: Microsoft Paint isn’t going away after all. Microsoft signaled an about-face in a blog post Monday night by Megan Saunders, a general manager within the Windows Experiences group ...

Reports of the death of MS Paint have been greatly exaggerated. Following widespread outcry, Microsoft has announced that it will not, in fact, entirely kill off old-school graphics program MS Paint.

Microsoft is adding one of the best photo editing features to Paint, and it's going to be free. According to a new post shared by Microsoft's Principal Product Manager Lead Dave Grochocki earlier this ...

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In what's sure to bring a wave of nostalgia, everyone's favorite image editor from the 1990s is back in the news. As part of an update for Windows Insiders, Microsoft Paint is getting support for two ...

It’s hard to complain about Microsoft Paint. After all, it’s bundled with Windows for free and provides the basics for annotating a screenshot with boxes, arrows, and text. It’s OK, but compared to ...

Microsoft not only spared its classic Paint app from oblivion: it is now breathing new life into it as an app for Windows 11. The updated Paint app for Windows 11 includes refreshed "Edit Color" and ...

After 32 years, the classic software Microsoft Paint might fade away. A creators update arriving this fall for PC operating system Windows 10 will shift Paint to "deprecated" status, which means the ...

On Sunday, Microsoft put the apparently beloved drawing program Paint on a list of features to be removed or deprecated in the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, spawning odes to the 32-year-old program ...

When you install Windows 11, you get a wide variety of programs and apps (in the Windows world, these words get mixed up a lot, and they really mean the same thing). Many of them are linked to the ...