In a blog post announcing the Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 21354, Microsoft said MSPaint will be “updateable via the Microsoft Store outside major OS updates.”
In 2017, Microsoft announced it would be killing off the graphics app after 32 years. While it’s not exactly people’s first choice when working with images, birthing the phrase, “What did you make that atrocity on? Paint?”, the program is still used by millions for quick and easy editing.
News of Paint’s demise brought a chorus of disapproval from fans, leading to Microsoft clarifying that while it would be removed from a core group of bundled Windows applications, MS Paint was moving to the company’s store as a free download.
In 2019, Brandon LeBlanc, a senior program manager on the Windows Insider Team, tweeted that Paint would be included with Windows 10 “for now.”
No word yet on when Paint will be available to all.
