Drawing the MS-DOS logo in Paintbrush on Windows 3.11 (1990)

Paint (formerly Paintbrush), commonly known as Microsoft Paint, is a simple computer graphics app that has been included with all versions of Microsoft Windows. The app opens and saves files as Windows bitmap (24-bit, 256 color, 16 color, and monochrome, all with the .bmp extension), JPEG, GIF (without animation or transparency, although the Windows 98 version, a Windows 95 upgrade, and the Windows NT 4.0 version did support the latter), PNG (without alpha channel), and single-page TIFF. The app can be in color mode or two-color black-and-white, but there is no grayscale mode. For its simplicity, it rapidly became one of the most used applications in the early versions of Windows, introducing many to painting on a computer for the first time. It is still widely used for simple image manipulation tasks. In July 2017, Microsoft added Paint to the list of Windows features to be deprecated in the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update. Though it will no longer receive updates, Microsoft will make it available in the Windows Store for free. The first version of Paint was introduced with the first version of Windows, Windows 1.0, in November 1985. It was a licensed version of ZSoft Corporation&PC Paintbrush, and supported only 1-bit monochrome graphics under a proprietary "MSP" format. This version was later superseded by Paintbrush in Windows 3.0, with a redesigned user interface, color support and support for the BMP and PCX file formats. This video was speed up for a timelapse.