Microsoft Paint won't be banished to oblivion&8212;for now

One of technology's last truly innocent creations just got an 11th hour reprieve. 

Microsoft Paint, the 33-year old program released with the first version of Windows back in 1985, is not being banished to the oblivion of the Windows Store after all — news that is sure to warm the cockles of many an elderly digital Seurat's heart. 

The program was added to Microsoft's "deprecated" list back in 2017, and in the summer of that year Microsoft insisted that MS Paint would always be available for download in the Windows Store. However, unbundling it from Windows appeared to many like step one in a two-step process of removing it from life support.  Read more...