AKIPRESS.COM - After the tremendous outpouring of love across the internet for arguably "the greatest Windows program ever," Microsoft has announced that it will save MS Paint by putting it on the Windows Store.

Following the company’s announcement that the 32-year-old Paint is now deprecated, meaning that it is “not in active development and might be removed in future releases”, Microsoft put out a blogpost in response to the anguished outcry at the potential removal of an old friend, Guardian reported.

Megan Saunders, Microsoft’s general manager of the 3D for Everyone initiative, said: “MS Paint is here to stay, it will just have a new home soon, in the Windows Store where it will be available for free.