14 DAY TRIAL // Windows 11 comes with a redesigned Paint app which, as you could easily guess, comes with an overhauled interface that aligns it with the rest of the operating system.
While the highly anticipated dark mode hasn’t been enabled just yet, it looks like the new Paint does come with something that you won’t be able to unsee too soon: it’s a typo in the File menu that somehow went unnoticed during the beta testing and is now bundled with the app even on production devices.
As spotted by someone on reddit, if you want to open a new file in Paint, you also have the option to import an image from the scannner or from the camera. You know, because everybody has a scannner these days anyway, so this makes perfect sense.
As if this wasn’t already announced for people obsessed with typos and everything grammar, users on reddit claim some of the Windows 11 translations available out there are full of similar mistakes, including the Italian, French, and Portuguese versions.
Paint now a Microsoft Store app
Needless to say, it shouldn’t take too long for Microsoft to correct this typo, but it’s difficult to understand how such a typo can go unnoticed in the world’s number one desktop operating system in the first place.
One possible example is the short time Windows 11 in general, and the Paint app in particular, spent in the testing stage as compared to other Windows 10 feature updates and Microsoft apps.
Windows 11 was announced in late June and the rollout started in early October, while the Paint app joined the Windows Insider program only a few weeks before the general availability was announced.
The good news is this new Paint app is a Microsoft Store app, so it can receive updates at a much faster pace, which means the typo could be gone before you even notice it.
Disclaimer: All the typos in this article are (hopefully) intentional.