New Visuals, header, simplified toolbar, and rounded corner are the new updates.
Later this year, the new Windows 11 is to arrive. Two apps are getting refreshed and an updated version, MS Paint and photos. The pictures of the two renewed apps got posted on Unsplash by Microsoft. Window Latest were the ones to notice it.
MS Paint Getting a New Look
The refresh updates to the MS Paint app are to have the app fit better into the whole design of Windows 11. It means that many features have gotten rid of and replaces by updated features.
A fluent header will replace the old ribbon menu. The toolbar has gotten simplified with the Undo and Redo buttons now placed next to the File options. Moreover, it has WinUI controls and forgets the 45 angle corners, now they are rounded corners. However, there may be changes, but no additional features have gotten added.
The real fact is MS Paint is not the app a graphic editor will use to photoshop. It was and probably always will be a sentimental app made to create rudimentary drawings and get used to resize or crop images in a cheap way. In some cases, it gets used to create a horror game inspired by Junji-Ito.
When it comes to the Photos app, it is also getting renewed, with added editing experience, screaming mobile photo editing apps, and a whole new interface. Many other apps are also getting a new makeover to fit the Window 11 and not just Paint and Photos. In the upcoming weeks’ Clock, Office, Notepad, and other Windows apps will also get revamped.
Nonetheless, the Paint app getting refreshed lets the Paint fans know Microsoft will not kill this favorite program. In 2017, Paint got put on a deprecated features list, a list made by Microsoft where the apps no longer to get developed actively got added on to. During this time, many feared that Microsoft was going to put the whole Paint app out completely.
Still, Paint remained installed in Windows 10, but there was a short time when the company did send removal notices of the app between the 1803 and 1809 versions. Users got another scare last year, where users who updated to the 2004 version removed several apps like Paint, Notepad, and WordPad.
Nostalgia is powerful and true to MS Paint. It is something that Microsoft is aware of as it posted Teams blog that features the Clippy, Solitaire, and old version of MS Paint backgrounds.
In a Blog, Microsoft stated:
“A product of the 1980s, Paint was first introduced in November 1985 as part of the first version of Windows, Windows 1.0…And while the original paint still loved by many artists in the making, its successor Paint 3D got eventually released in 2017.”
