Microsoft is axing this seven-year-old Windows app

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Microsoft is axing this seven-year-old Windows app
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According to a banner that's appeared in-app, Paint 3D won't be available in the Microsoft Store starting on November 4 of this year.

As spotted by Windows Central, Paint 3D will stop receiving updates and be removed from the Microsoft Store on November 4 of this year. Although it was once intended as a replacement for the classic Paint program, Paint 3D will be outlived by its predecessor and some of its best features have been transferred to the older app instead.

Recommended Videos First released in 2017, Paint 3D was meant to be an exciting upgrade for Paint users and enthusiasts that brought a modernized UI, layers, PNG support, transparency, and 3D modeling features. And people didn’t hate it — but what they did hate was Microsoft saying it wasplanning to deprecate the old Paint program.

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