The Next Big Windows Update Is Coming to Your Computer October 1. Optimize your storage and back up your files because the Windows Fall Update is just around the corner. At the IFA Keynote in Berlin Terry Meyerson, VP of the Windows and Devices group, announced that the Windows 1. Fall Creators Update would begin rolling out to compatible PCs October 1. This update will see the death of the old email program Outlook Express, as well as the depreciation of the popular Paint application. As Microsoft told Gizmodo back in July, while Paint wont officially go away it will no longer be updated after this release, and many of its best features will be moved over to Paint 3. D, a new program developed by Microsoft intended to make producing 3. D artwork as easy as its been to produce the 2. D kind in Paint. Besides losing some old apps you might harbor nostalgia for, the Windows 1. Hey, welcome to the super cool lowtech search page To search for something, hit CtrlF or AppleF and type what youre looking for. Let your browser do all the. Fall Creators Update will also improve One. Drive, so you can choose to only sync specific files and give the Windows Ink app the ability to mark up PDFs. Microsoft says there are other cool features coming in the update, including changes to its Photo app, and improved gaming integration for Windows and Xbox. Yet perhaps the biggest change coming with the Windows 1. Fall Creators Update is the rollout of Windows Mixed Reality. This is Microsofts long promised foray into consumer VR. While weve only seen a little of what this experience will look like we do know major computer makers like Dell, Acer, Lenovo, and HP are producing headset to work with Mixed Reality, and that unlike the Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, these headsets wont require a bunch of extra cameras and IR sensors placed around the room to work properly. Headsets will start at 3. Acer and HP headsets, will come in bundles including controllers based on a design Microsoft announced back into May. Well definitely have a more exhaustive update on the Windows 1. Fall Creators Update and Windows Mixed Reality closer to the October 1. The Benjamin Moore Paint Company was started by, you guessed it, Benjamin Moore in 1883. Since that time, this award winning brand has grown to offer the finest. Watch Dogs 2 got its final patch today, which makes impossible to use mods while online if youre playing on PC. The games publisher, Ubisoft, says that this is. MS Paint, the first app you used for editing images, will probably be killed off in future updates of Windows 10, replaced by the new app Paint 3D. Microsoft lists. This is normally a bit of a scam by car dealerships. You can get some clear liquid protector from a basic car shop. I personally dont think anything is a patch on. On Monday, we learned that Microsoft was killing off the iconic Microsoft Paint program after 32 years and replacing it with Paint 3D in its upcoming Windows 10 update. Just How Dead Is Microsoft Paint UpdatedThis morning, Windows users woke to terrible news Microsoft was reportedly axing its beloved Microsoft Paint. The program, which has been annotating our memes, creating our webcomics, and teaching us how to art since 1. Microsofts list of Windows features to be removed or deprecated in the Windows 1. Fall Creators Update. But this doesnt mean Paint as we know it is dead The list Paint was featured on very specifically says that each product will either be killed, or it will be deprecatedwhich merely means it will no longer be actively developed. Paint falls into the latter category. So it could be dropped in a future update, or it could hang around for the next decadean artifact of a different time. Outlook Express, another Windows application thats conjures memories for older users, is being killed in the same update. It is officially supplanted by the big boy Microsoft Outlook, which is more stylistically in line with Windows 1. Outlook Express. While Outlook Express has long languished in the shadow of its hipper Outlook cousin, MS Paint has seen infrequent updates that at least allow it to look like it belongs on a 2. Microsoft is very aware of how much affection users have for Microsoft Paint. The product, which many of us used as a digital doodling book when we were kids, has a cult following. When Microsoft briefed press on the original Creators Update back in March, its representatives only had nice things to say about the application. Paint is on every Windows computerIt makes creating art easy Its like Photoshop but simple and free This is not how you talk when youre planning to ax a product. This is definitely the kind of talk you deliver when youre launching a new Paint product. Which was what was happening at that press briefing. Microsoft launched Paint 3. D, a 3. D rendering and printing tool intended to simplify the production of 3. D products, in March. The name Paint 3. D was specifically used so play on peoples nostalgia for MS Paint. Its not unreasonable to expect that the upcoming Fall Creators Update will see Paint 3. D expanded to incorporate the features we all know and love from Paint. Either way, it is not in Microsofts best interest to kill an application that has been loved for more than 3. Right now Microsoft is campaigning to steal all the artists and other creators who have traditionally preferred the Mac ecosystem for creating digital art. Its why Microsoft spent so much time talking about the Surface Pen when it updated the Surface Pro a few months ago, and its why it launched the Surface Studio last October. Heck, its why it keeps calling every new Windows OS update a creators update. It wants those users Transforming its most enduring creative application into something more robust is a clear next step. Eventually Microsoft could kill the ugly version of Paint we love in order to release shiny new version of Paint or a Paint adjacent application. Or Microsoft could just leave MS Paint in the Deprecated column for a while, a cool app eventually destined to be forgotten as younger computer users snap up alternate tools like Photoshop Express or Autodesk Sketchbook. Either way Microsoft Paint isnt dead, its just deprecated, and Microsoft has made no comment on how long it could be deprecated. So maybe dont go ordering funeral flowers just yet. Weve reached out to Microsoft to learn more about the plans for Paint and will update if we hear back get back to us. Update A Microsoft spokesperson responded with the following statement MS Paint is not going away. In addition to the new 3. D capabilities, many of the MS Paint features people know and love like photo editing and 2. D creation are in Paint 3. D the new app for creativity, available for free with the Windows 1. Creators update. In the future, we will offer MS Paint in the Windows Store also for free and continue to provide new updates and experiences to Paint 3. D so people have the best creative tools all in one place. So there you have it. MS Paint is safe. Microsoft via The Guardian.