I remember a program on Apple by that was called MacPaint. This was before Photoshop came out.
Microsoft Paint saved after outpouring of love
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/25/microsoft-paint-saved-windows-store
This was the first program my daughter learned to use, back when she was seven years old.
Isn’t Paint a standalone program?
Once downloaded and installed, isn’t it possible to keep it and use it?
MS Paint has long been given a short shrift by Microsoft. Any improvements or upgrades have always been tiny and far behind their competition. Even their photo stuff rates dead last.
https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2369237,00.asp
My brother complained about MS Paint after he upgraded to Win-7. Of course he’s resistant to change so I understand his antagonistic attitude toward Microsoft when they screw with things just for the sake of screwing with things.
To appease him I did some experimenting and discovered that I could lift the MS Paint program from Win-XP and drop it into Win-7... or Win-10 for that matter. Runs just fine. Just place it in a folder with a shortcut of the executable to the desktop.