Microsoft will not kill Paint, and has promised the app is only moving to the Windows Store – where it will be available for free.<\/p>\n
This follows reports that\u00a0MS Paint made the list<\/a><\/strong> of deprecated features in the Fall Creator’s Update for Windows 10.<\/p>\n Other deprecated features include System Image Backup, various IIS features, and Windows Powershell 2.0.<\/p>\n Features being removed with the update include Outlook Express, the screen-saver\u00a0functionality\u00a0in\u00a0Themes, and the 3D Builder app.<\/p>\n “Today, we’ve seen an incredible outpouring of support and nostalgia around MS Paint,” said Microsoft<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n “If there\u2019s anything we learned, it\u2019s that after 32 years, MS Paint has a lot of fans.”<\/p>\n Microsoft added that many features in Paint are available in its new creativity app, Paint 3D.<\/p>\n Paint 3D is available in the current Windows 10 Creators Update, and Microsoft said it will\u00a0continue to get updates.<\/p>\n Microsoft has promised the app is only moving to the Windows Store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":110808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[123,44796],"class_list":["post-221464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-microsoft","tag-ms-paint"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221464"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221472,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221464\/revisions\/221472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0Microsoft waging quiet war against Russia’s Fancy Bear hackers<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"