Microsoft Paint is one of the flagship applications of the Windows operating system. From its first versions, Microsoft software integrates this small program to create, view or edit all kinds of images. With Windows 10, Paint 3D arrived, which was shown as the natural evolution of this application. However, his future was the opposite.
With a large number of functions, Paint 3D lost the simplicity that the user was looking for in the traditional Windows application. Thus, year after year it did nothing but accumulate criticism and detractors, to the point that Microsoft was relegating it to the background along with other news that came with Windows 10 Creators Update.
Microsoft Paint adapts to the Windows 11 interface
Those at Redmond continue to seek to eliminate inconsistencies in the operating system and its pre-installed applications. In this way, they have presented two redesigns for apps such as Clock and alarms, Calculator, Mail and calendar or the Microsoft Store. Now, it’s Microsoft Paint’s turn.
As we see in the image filtered by Aggiornamenti Lumia, Microsoft Paint maintains its essence. The redesign does not add or remove functions, keeping the current distribution in the interface, but making use of the new WinUI iconography and elements. The goal of this update is to bring the application in line with the design we see throughout Windows 11.
Secondly, the improvement in functionality comes from the hand of Windows Ink. And is that Microsoft would have updated the brushes feature to use the functionality built into the operating system. With this update, scrolling using your finger or a stylus is much more natural and faster than before.
This update to Microsoft Paint would also come when it is rumored that the Panos Panay team has prepared a new pen for Surface devices that would simulate the use of pencils, pens or brushes in the real world. Therefore, it would not be unreasonable to see a demo with the new Surface Pro 8 or Surface Pro X during the event on September 22.