Today’s the day: Microsoft will serve up its final public patches for Windows XP. Although Microsoft has pounded the “Kill XP” drum for years, the news broke out of the tech press ghetto today and ...

Update (7/24): Microsoft has clarified their stance on the apparently secretly-loved-by-the-masses Paint app. Yes, Paint will be eventually removed from the core group of bundled Windows applications, ...

The venerable Windows Paint program, known to many by the name of its executable, mspaint.exe, has been marked as deprecated in the forthcoming Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, The Guardian reports.

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