Paint is already listed as a standalone app in the Microsoft Store awaiting an imminent release

It was more than a year ago when we started hearing news about the future of Paint, an application that with the 20H1 branch could be removed from the operating system by the user.

A movement of depth, since Paint was one of the applications that arrived by default in the launch of Windows 1.0 in 1985, becoming one of the first graphic editing applications. Since then, it has remained in all versions of Windows to this day. A time when already listed as a stand-alone app in the Microsoft Store

Paint as a standalone application

Thanks to the colleagues at Aggiornamenti Lumia it has been discovered that the drawing application already appears in the Microsoft Store as a standalone application, although for now it cannot be downloaded, something that aims for very short term availability

Paint is the Windows graphic editor par excellence, that application included by default that we've all used at some point, even if it's for doodle and that it was also one of the things that aroused the most curiosity when some approached the world of computing for the first time.

The presence in the Microsoft Store points to a very soon release and in fact hopefully it can be downloaded soon, when in a few days the spring update is announced or even coinciding with the next build of Windows 10 within the test channels.

The arrival in the form of an independent application means that when it comes to receiving improvements, we won't have to wait for the system update . We can access just by downloading the update as if it were a mobile application.

The application already appears in this link although for now it warns that it is not available. A very light application, with a weight of only 4.67 MB, so its size is not an excuse for not having it preloaded on Windows 10.

Paint

• Developer: Microsoft Corporation
• Download it at: Microsoft Store
• Price: Free
• Category: Entertainment