[German]A small note to users of Windows 10 and Windows 11 who may rely on the Paint 3D program. Paint 3D, which was announced with great fanfare in 2016, will soon be buried without a sound. On November 4, 2024, Paint 3D will no longer be supported by Microsoft and will no longer receive updates. A logical step now that Microsoft no longer finds mixed reality sexy and has scrapped it.
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Paint 3D: A short life
The list of failed software projects at Microsoft has one more entry. There are programs in Windows that have been on board for decades. The Windows editor Notepad is one of them and I see blogs enthusiastically celebrating the latest developments such as spell check. I would even have been tempted to mention WordPad. But WordPad has now also fallen out of support and will disappear (see Microsoft declares Windows "Mixed Reality" – and also Defender Application Guard for Edge as deprecated).
But let's come back to Paint 3D, which was introduced in October 2016 as the ultimate innovation in the Windows 10 Creators Update (see Windows 10 "Creators Update" kommt 2017 – 3D für Alle).
It was already clear to me that stuff like Paint 3D would only have a short life when Mixed Reality was discontinued by Microsoft (see Microsoft declares Windows "Mixed Reality" – and also Defender Application Guard for Edge as deprecated). In June 2021, Microsoft then announced that Paint 3D would disappear as a feature in Windows 11 (see Windows 11: These features disappear). Although the apps should not be removed during upgrades, they will be missing on new devices with Windows 11 or when reinstalling the operating system. But the apps were still available for download in Windows store.
EOL for Paint 3D
Now neowin.net has noticed the retirement of Paint 3D. The following tweet indicates that Paint 3D now shows a banner stating that it will no longer receive updates from November 4, 2024 and will no longer be available in the Microsoft Store.
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That's probably it for this great achievement from the Microsoft forge. At least MS Paint remains on board as a mickey-painting program. Anyone from the readership who misses Paint 3D?
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