Paint 3D is not far off a decade old at this point, but it was sidelined by Microsoft a few years back – and now it’s fully getting the chop.

Microsoft unveiled its revamped and modernized Paint app for Windows 10 earlier today. It’s designed to make 3D object creation easy across devices with a regular mouse and keyboard ...

Microsoft recommends the Paint and Photos apps for viewing and editing 2D images and the 3D Viewer app for viewing 3D models. Creating and editing 3D images will be left to third-party software.

Microsoft's Paint 3D app will let you edit 3D images from any angle using the new Free View tool. Written by Liam Tung, Contributing Writer Jan. 11, 2018 at 5:57 a.m. PT ...

However, Paint 3D never really got off the ground (we’ll come back to why in a moment), and was removed from the collection of stock apps installed with Windows by default in 2021. Since then ...