Microsoft eventually reversed course and announced an updated version of Paint in Windows 11. However, Paint continued to be included with Windows 10.
Microsoft had envisioned Paint 3D as a replacement. In July 2017, Microsoft added Paint to the list of deprecated features of Windows 10 and announced that it would become a free standalone application in Microsoft Store. It is still widely used for simple image manipulation tasks. For its simplicity and that it is included with Windows, it rapidly became one of the most used applications in the early versions of Windows, introducing many to painting on a computer for the first time. The program can be in color mode or two-color black-and-white, but there is no grayscale mode. The program opens and saves files in Windows bitmap (BMP), JPEG, GIF, PNG, and single-page TIFF formats. Microsoft Paint is a simple raster graphics editor that has been included with all versions of Microsoft Windows.
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