Time is running out for Microsoft Paint. The venerable application that started its life 32 years ago as a monochrome, bitmap Windows 1.0 drawing program is on Microsoft's "Deprecated" list. In an ...

The change is still a big break in the 32-year history of Paint, which has shipped with the Windows operating system ever since Microsoft released Windows 1.0 in 1985.

Removing features to streamline Windows is no easy task. Microsoft's casual threat to remove Paint highlights the frustrating dynamic of progress versus our collective nostalgia for simpler times.

Microsoft is "deprecating" Paint within the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, meaning it won't be developed further and may eventually disappear. If the worst happens, here are your options.

Paint premiered in the very first version of Windows 1.0 as a 1-bit monochrome version of ZSoft’s PC Paintbrush. It wasn’t even able to save images as a JPEG until Windows 98.

Microsoft Paint was included with Windows 1.0 released in November 1985. Like the operating system as a whole, the program's features would seem primitive by today's standards.

Microsoft Paint, the graphics editor found in Windows, will not receive new updates and may be removed from future versions of the operating system.

Microsoft announces the side-lining and long, slow death of veteran graphics program and meme mainstay Paint after 32 years, making users everywhere very emotional.

And the while, the software giant has upgraded the app with some regularity in the 30+ plus years since it was first introduced along with Windows 1.0, it will take a lot of doing to remove its ...

Microsoft has incorporated its revamped Paint 3D app into the latest Windows 10 Insider Preview build. First announced as part of the Windows 10 Creators update, it has nothing to do with the ...

MS Paint will be offered in the Windows Store for free, following an outpouring of support for the iconic doodling app.