Fans of the app were outraged and took to social media to voice their anguish. — -- Microsoft said it would keep developing its Paint program on Monday amid fears that the 32-year-old application ...

Update: On Monday night Microsoft announced that MS Paint is not going away and will soon be available in the Windows store for free. The statement reads in part, "we've seen an incredible outpouring ...

Microsoft has announced a major new update to its in-box Paint app for Windows 11. In addition to a new opacity slider, the company is introducing a dedicated .paint project file type for the ...

The big picture: Microsoft continues to add new features to Paint, a program the company had considered discontinuing some years ago. Now, Paint is receiving updates that include some intriguing new ...

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 ...

Us mighty Photoshop masters might look down on the humble Microsoft Paint, but at least you can use it without signing a second mortgage over to Adobe. Between that, its collection of easy, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Microsoft Paint isn’t going anywhere after all. After an outcry of longtime aspiring digital artists, Microsoft had a change of, umm, art, and said it would ...

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