MS paint now lets you use powerful AI features like Generative Fill and Erase—for free.
Once upon a clock.exe, Microsoft Paint was just a sad copy of the iconic MacPaint that shipped with every Macintosh back in 1984. Released in 1985 as part of Windows 1.0, Paint (barely) evolved with its operating system, turning from clone to hated app to beloved source of endless memes, almost ending in the Recycling Bin along with Clippy. During this journey, Paint became an icon in its own right, which is maybe the reason why the Redmond, Washington, company chose to remake the software into a powerful (and free) AI-powered image editor available on Windows 11 and CoPilot+ PC, the new computer designed to compete head-to-head against the mean and lean Apple Silicon machines.
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