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 ...

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, ...

Microsoft Paint, the beloved Windows graphic editing program, has been marked for death. Thirty-two years after including a Paint program in its inaugural Windows 1.0, Microsoft Corp. put Paint on its ...

See what the first version of Windows looked like. — -- Microsoft Windows turns the big 3-0 today. Windows 1.0 changed the way we use computers when it was released 30 years ago today. Instead of ...

Thirty years ago today, Microsoft joined a competitive race with the introduction of Windows 1.0. Apple had already introduced its Mac OS and Microsoft was a year and a half late in shipping their ...

Removing features to streamline Windows is no easy task. Microsoft's casual threat to remove Paint highlights the frustrating dynamic of progress versus our collective nostalgia for simpler times.

Thirty years ago, Microsoft gave to the world the first version of what would become the most popular operating system in the world. Windows 1.0 was released on November 20, 1985, and while the ...

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 ...

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 ...