That was me trying to teach my 82-year-old grandpa, Harold, how to use his new computer’s Microsoft Paint Program. It was 1997, and Grandpa Hal was ready to paint. He had done it with actual ...

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.

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Who'd have thought Microsoft Paint could produce art like this? Images: Concha García Zaera Who needs expensive Photoshop subscriptions and fancy drawing hardware? 91-year-old grandma Concha García ...

Microsoft plans to axe the long-running drawing tool, MS Paint, in the next iteration of Windows 10 (the Fall Creators Update). Though Microsoft will probably continue with its newest art program, ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s not a super surprising move, given that Microsoft would logically be putting its efforts toward Paint 3D, the overhauled version of the original Paint that the company introduced in the Windows ...

UPDATE: Hooray! After announcing Microsoft Paint was going to be “removed and deprecated,” the company cleared up confusion and confirmed that the program is here to stay. “MS Paint is not going away, ...

Editor’s Note: This story was originally published on July 10. Microsoft said Thursday that the Remix3D.com online repository will shut down on Friday, Jan. 10. This story has been slightly edited to ...