Ever since the release of Windows 7 in 2009, MS Paint, the beloved program of meme-makers and Picasso-wannabes, has remained mostly untouched and unchanged. The only thing that the aforementioned operating system did for the doodling app was the incorporation of the “ribbon” user interface — a feature introduced in Office 2007. Some time later, the app was pushed aside in favor of its little brother, Paint 3D.
Now, after over a decade of being ignored, MS Paint finally received some love.
Microsoft Chief Product Officer Panos Panay posted a brief video of the new design, showing off its updated look, a new dark mode, better text tools, updated brushes, and other tweaks that collectively serve to modernize the app a bit.
But don’t expect the app to be on the same level as Adobe Photoshop or any modern photo-editing software out there. MS Paint is still a doodling app at the end of the day. What you can expect, however, is that the next generation can still bear witness to the app that made childhood in the 90s fun.
The new MS Paint will be made available for Windows Insider soon.
(Image Credit: Microsoft via Ars Technica)