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: On Monday night Microsoft announced that MS Paint is not going away and will soon be available in the Windows store for free. The statement reads in part, "we've seen an incredible outpouring ...

Microsoft's apparently cold send-off for "trusty old" MS Paint in a widely-reported support note yesterday was misunderstood, according to the company. Microsoft posted a blog on Monday evening to ...

Update 5:58pm CT, July 24: Reports of MS Paint’s demise were apparently exaggerated. A Microsoft spokesperson tells the Daily Dot that the iconic software isn’t going way, but rather going to live in ...

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, ...

The end is near for Microsoft Paint. The simple graphics application that has been included with Windows for more than 30 years could be phased out of future versions of the operating system, ...

Windows 1.0 officially released to the public 40 years ago today (November 20), and despite its age, still has some common similarities with what users can expect from the operating system today.

Let’s set the stage: It’s November 20, 1985. The most popular song in the United States is Starship’s “We Built This City,” a gift to the American Songbook. Two days later the highest-grossing recent ...

First developed in 1981 by computer scientist Chase Bishop, the software project that would eventually become Windows actually started life under a far wonkier name: "Interface ...