

The main home tab features a wide array of tools for area selection (and associated actions such as crop, resize and rotate), pen, eraser, zoom, text insert, brushes, shapes, pencil size, and color picker. The user interface of MS Paint features a classic Ribbon interface that was popularized by Windows 7. Simply install this app on any modern version of Windows OS (even old Windows XP!), and this classic app will be ready for editing and image creation. This standalone version of Microsoft Paint is the same as the one that is distributed to all Windows 10/Windows 11 users, and even they can gain value from this standalone version if by any chance their local copy becomes inaccessible, corrupted or (accidentally) deleted. The new version introduced many new elements that can enhance the possibilities of creating new rasterized art, and more tools for simple editing or enhancing any photo or image that it can load. However, with years this app went through several noticeable upgrades, and now the users of older versions of this OS can experience the latest version of this app that is currently being shipped on Windows 10 on the new Windows 11.

The company wasn’t able to release a new build for the Dev Channel last week, though we hope the Windows Insider team will be able to ship some new bits later today at 10AM PT.MS Paint is the legendary lightweight graphic editor available as a built-in app in all versions of Windows OS. We’re looking forward to seeing if Microsoft will officially announce the release of classic Paint on the Microsoft Store with the latest Windows 10 Insider flight this week. Both Paint 3D and 3D Viewer are no longer included on clean installs of the latest Windows 10 Insider builds, though both apps remain available to download on the Microsoft Store. Ironically, Paint 3D, the new version of Paint Microsoft launched in 2017 will no longer be pre-installed on new installations of Windows 10 later this year. Bringing Paint to the Microsoft Store will allow the company to update it more frequently, and the software giant has recently done the same with Notepad which is also available to download from the Microsoft Store.


Paint on the Microsoft Store comes with a new icon inspired by Microsoft’s Fluent Design, but overall it’s the same classic Paint app users know and love.
