The era of Microsoft Paint appears to be coming to an end with the upcoming release of the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update. The image-editing application is officially being classified by Microsoft as a “deprecated feature,” as noted by The Guardian. That means that, come this fall, Paint will “not be in active development and might be removed in future releases.”

Paint has long been a mainstay of Windows, dating back to a 1-bit monochrome version of the program released alongside Windows 1.0 back in November 1985. Microsoft continued to update Paint throughout the years, and users have grown to embrace the limited set of features the image editor had to offer. And while it’s true legacy will…

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