Keep it under your hat, but Microsoft's Paint app has been experiencing a quiet resurgence over the past few years. Oft neglected as a potential image editing tool, MS has been beavering away in the background, adding features like background removal and object selection to relatively little fanfare. Still, updates are updates, and many of them have been good.
Now MS says Paint is getting one Photoshop-like feature that might make it even more appealing—layered project saving, in the form of a new .paint file extension (via The Verge). The update comes as part of the latest Windows Insider build, which is often a pretty good indicator that it'll turn up in a regular release version sometime soon.
