Paint

Microsoft Paint (or Paintbrush in Windows 3.x and Windows NT 3.x) is a simple graphics editor included with Microsoft Windows.

History

 * In Windows 1.x and 2.x, Paint could only edit monochrome 1 bit graphics in a MSP format.
 * In Windows 3.0 Paint was redesigned and renamed to Paintbrush, with BMP and true color support, albeit most computers of the time only supported 256 colors.
 * In Windows 95 Paintbrush was redesigned again and renamed back to Paint.
 * In Windows XP Paint can natively save and open images in BMP, JPEG, GIF, TIFF and PNG formats.
 * In Windows 7 Paint was give a new Ribbon based UI and now supports a few "artistic brushes".