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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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