

And the tools shown in the app’s ribbon interface are likewise identical to the current app.īut the big news here is that Microsoft is updating Paint at all, and what this looks like to me is what the “new” Snipping Tool looks like: A classic Win32 app with a fresh coat of WinUI 3.0 paint, if you will, and it supports Dark mode (and presumably the new Windows 11 themes engine).Īnd that’s just fine with me.

Can’t wait to see your creations!”īased on the quicky video accompanying the tweet, there’s not much new here from a features perspective: All of the interactions made in the video exist in the current version of Paint. “This is the beautifully redesigned Paint app, coming soon to Windows Insiders. “Here’s another Windows 11 first look,” Mr. Microsoft’s Panos Panay recently teased a coming Windows 11 feature called Focus sessions, and now he’s teasing a visual refresh of Paint, a classic desktop application that dates back to the first version of Windows, in 1985.
