Microsoft won’t remove MS Paint from Windows 10 after all

Microsoft has reversed its decision to remove MS Paint from Windows 10 and make the program available through the Microsoft Store. The drawing application remains in the operating system.

Confirmation that MS Paint will remain in Windows 10 is coming through Brandon LeBlanc from the Windows Insider Program team at Microsoft. He thus responds to a comment that a warning screen about the disappearance of Paint no longer appears in the drawing software.

Microsoft announced two years ago that MS Paint would appear in the Microsoft Store as Classic Paint. From now on, users could download the application for free. The company no longer wanted to supply the program as standard with Windows 10 because the OS already contains the successor in the eyes of Microsoft: Paint 3D.

In the past updates of Windows 10, the drawing program remained present and why Microsoft is now definitively reversing its decision is not known. It is also not clear whether Microsoft will continue to support Paint with new functions and whether it will become an app based on the Universal Windows Platform, for example.

With the announcement that Paint would disappear from Windows, there was a lot of criticism from users who felt that Paint 3D did not have the simplicity of its predecessor. Paint has been in Microsoft’s OS since 1985 with the release of Windows 1.0.