Microsoft has sought to reassure customers that its legendary Paint program is not being killed off.

The software giant recently announced it would drop support for the popular drawing app in its upcoming Windows 10 update, sparking uproar that it was axing the beloved program after more than three decades.

It had marked Paint as "deprecated" in a list of apps and features that may be removed from the software, meaning the app is "not in active development and might be removed in future releases".

However, on Monday it said Paint wasn't "going anywhere".

"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," the firm said in a blog post.