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Terms apply to American Express benefits and offers. We may receive a commission through the LendingTree affiliate network if you apply and are approved for a card, but our reporting is always independent and objective. Now excuse me while I go spend the rest of my day lost in the eyes of this pixelated kitten (Opens in a new tab).Your CNN account Log in to your CNN accountĬNN Underscored reviews financial products such as credit cards and bank accounts based on their overall value. Because, and let's be real here, very few people are going to trek their way over to the Windows Store to download this thing when it's ultimately unbundled from some future version of the operating system.īut hey, that's something for future generations to worry about. Namely, the idea of "for now." This clearly suggests that the days of painstakingly creating devastating visual owns of your dumb friends pixel by pixel are numbered. Regardless, there are a couple of important caveats in LeBlanc's statement. Perhaps a lot of people still use it to make screenshots? We reached out to the company, but received no response as of press time. The question as to why Microsoft decided to do us all this solid remains unresolved. (opens in a new tab) (Opens in a new tab) "It'll remain included in Windows 10 for now." "Yes, MSPaint will be included in 1903," he wrote (Opens in a new tab). Brandon LeBlanc, a senior program manager at Microsoft, confirmed the news via Twitter on April 22. Well, MS Paint will live to ride another day. However, unbundling it from Windows appeared to many like step one in a two-step process of removing it from life support. The program was added to Microsoft's " deprecated" list back in 2017, and in the summer of that year Microsoft insisted (Opens in a new tab) that MS Paint would always be available for download in the Windows Store. Microsoft Paint, the 33-year old program released with the first version of Windows back in 1985, is not being banished to the oblivion of the Windows Store after all - news that is sure to warm the cockles of many an elderly digital Seurat's heart.

One of technology's last truly innocent creations just got an 11th hour reprieve.
