



Paint is still a commonly used app by many to this very day. However, it seems that Windows users didn’t take the bait. At the time, the company felt this was a good path to move on as it was pushing to transition users to the Paint 3D app instead. Microsoft had updated the interface to work with the modern ribbon-style menus, but then took the path of deprecating it in 2007, pulling it from Windows to be an optional download from the Microsoft Store instead. It’s been around for so long, it’s hard to think that it could ever be removed from the operating system. Paint (aka, Microsoft Paint, or MS Paint) has been a staple application that has been included in Windows since version 1.0 (November 1985), also known as Microsoft Paintbrush in those earlier days before taking on the name that we know it as to this day.
