You cannot kill what does not die
Microsoft Paint has followed its long-lived chum Notepad into the howling wilderness of the Microsoft Store. It has been a while coming, but last night’s Dev Channel Insider build of Windows 10 ( 21354) has made the MSPaint app updateable via the Microsoft Store. The change, which was accompanied by a whizzy new icon for the aged bitmap editor, will allow Microsoft to tinker with the app without requiring a full-on Windows update. The same fate has already befallen the Notepad text editor, although we fervently hope those within the walls of Redmond fight the urge to fiddle with it too much. Paint first turned up in Windows 1.0, back in 1985. Unlike Notepad, however, today’s MSPaint is a very different beast compared to what first emerged on floppy disks all those years ago.
