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Microsoft’s Paint 3D was once the future of MS Paint, but now it’s going away

User outcry ushered in a renaissance for classic MS Paint, and Paint 3D faded.

When it was introduced, Paint 3D was also pitched as a way to create and manipulate three-dimensional objects that could then be dropped into real environments using the Windows Mixed Reality platform. Andrew Cunningham Andrew is a Senior Technology Reporter at Ars Technica, with a focus on consumer tech including computer hardware and in-depth reviews of operating systems like Windows and macOS. Andrew lives in Philadelphia and co-hosts a weekly book podcast called Overdue.

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