Why is Paint 3D Shutting Down

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Anonymous
2024-08-17T09:22:14+00:00

Paint 3D is a tool I use for tasks regularly and I want to know why its shutting down all of a sudden

there's not enough information on why you cant keep it up, update it, or make a better version of it to fit windows 11.

The removal of Paint 3D shouldn't be necessary.

If it really has to go then I would like to know why you cant either save or remake it or even incorporate it into existing applications.

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Anonymous
2025-01-24T19:21:12+00:00

HAHA MICROSOFT ITS 24TH JANUARY 2025 RIGHT? GUESS WHAT. YOU DEPRECATED PAINT 3D ON NOVEMBER 4TH LAST YEAR. RIGHT? NOW I HAVE PAINT 3D ON MY WINDOWS 11 FRESH INSTALL!

I LAUGH IN THE FACE OF MICROSOFT AND SAY, WELL AND TRULY, WE WILL NEVER GIVE UP PAINT 3D. NO MATTER WHAT YOU TRY THERE IS ALWAYS A BACKDOOR, A METHOD TO REINSTALL IT!

Toast Mike, here is the file for Paint 3D, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ylSw1pvV-PPZ5pFYY5F8EGwStwPNdPUc/view Download the full thing and double click to install it. All functions are there.

Godspeed.

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-01-25T03:05:03+00:00

    I used 3d paint for ever thing to paint in 2d even Tho its called 3d paint it still is fun and I hope Microsoft brings it back

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-10-25T01:00:43+00:00

    Very discouraging to see this, but sadly it's consistent with every other graphics tool Microsoft has ever launched:

    • PhotoDraw
    • Windows Journal
    • Microsoft Office Picture Manager
    • Photo Editor
    • Image Composite Editor
    • Photosynth
    • Picture It
    • Fine Artist
    • Image Composer
    • Microsoft Digital Image
    • TrueSpace
    • Expression Design

    And to this we can now add

    • Paint 3D
    • Publisher (due to be killed in 2026)

    I recall that there was at least one other quite good drawing program that made it to beta in the 1990s, but it was killed before it could be released.

    I can understand getting out of a business because of an inability to gain enough market share, but Microsoft has entered and left this market over a dozen times in 30 years. Given that track record, a lot of customers were likely hesitant to invest a lot of time and money in using MS design tools because they'll eventually be left in the lurch with a bunch of unreadable graphics files. When I first saw Paint 3D, I suspected it would eventually meet the same fate. I just found out today about Publisher being abandoned, and I have a *LOT* of .PUB files that will be orphaned. Shame on me for assuming that Publisher would be any different than the rest of the list above.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-10-21T22:33:45+00:00

    It isn't going thankfully if you already bought it. Just don't uninstall it afterwards then it is gone gone.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-10-03T23:24:10+00:00

    Cool thanks. Will the installer still work after they take Paint 3D down from the store on November 4, 2024? Just Curious.

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