Microsoft introduced Paint 3D in 2017 as part of a creator-focused update to its Windows 10 operating system. Representing a modern take on the Microsoft Paint app that dates back to 1985, the ...

Microsoft announced that the Paint 3D graphics app will be discontinued later this year and removed from the Microsoft Store in November. The 3D graphics program was first unveiled as a replacement ...

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Paint 3D was going to replace Paint at one point, and now it’s being deprecated. Paint 3D was going to replace Paint at one point, and now it’s being deprecated. is a senior editor and author of ...

At today’s new product event, Microsoft’s rallying cry has been “3D for everyone.” The unlikely standard bearer? An overhauled version of MS Paint, its ...

Most people think of Windows Paint as the plucky image editor responsible for most stick figures drawn on a PC, or that app you paste your screenshots into. Microsoft would like to make it a lot more ...

Microsoft Paint is finally testing background removal, the killer feature of Microsoft’s Paint 3D that we hoped they’d save. And they finally have! In 2021, Microsoft pulled Paint 3D from Windows, ...

As promised last week, Microsoft has thrown bits of its Creators Update into the latest preview build for Windows Insiders in the Fast Ring. What is interesting is that the Creators Update bits ...

Paint 3D was a surprise. Even longtime Microsoft watchers had no idea the company was working on a 3D spin on Paint, and it seemed like a left-field choice for most consumers. But after diving into ...

Microsoft has added the 3D version of Microsoft Paint to the latest test build of the Windows 10 Creators Update (codename "Redstone 2"). "The Paint 3D Preview app is now included as part of Windows ...

Microsoft Paint isn’t going anywhere after all. After an outcry of longtime aspiring digital artists, Microsoft had a change of, umm, art, and said it would not discontinue the classic program.

Update 07/25/2017: Microsoft acknowledges fan outcry and says it will save Paint by turning it into a Windows Store app. Read all about it in our follow-up news story. The writing’s on the wall: ...