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 ...

Microsoft Paint isn't dead yet, after all. Following an outcry from fans on Monday, Microsoft (MSFT) said the app will soon land in the Windows Store for free. "In the future, we will offer MS ...

Paint was born with Windows 1.0 in 1985, as a licensed version of ZSoft’s PC Paintbrush. Microsoft updated Paint over subsequent versions, adding support for JPEG, TIFF, and other file formats.

Paint first appeared in Windows 1.0 in 1985 as software licensed from ZSoft, a now-defunct Georgia software maker, and has survived — in all its pixelated glory — for eons in software time.

Windows 1.0 wasn't exactly a huge win — even with Microsoft Paint helping out. ... “Paint.” Windows wasn’t the first operating system with a GUI as its primary feature.

Where Windows 8 has the familiar desktop waiting beneath its Metro UI, Windows 1.0 ran on top of the popular MS-DOS. In fact, you needed to install Windows 1.0 atop an existing installation of MS ...

Windows 1.0 stood the test of time and Microsoft offered supported for its debut outing for 16 years – the most for any version of the OS that has ever seen a release.

The change is still a big break in the 32-year history of Paint, which has shipped with the Windows operating system ever since Microsoft released Windows 1.0 in 1985.