Windows Update and Store are slowly becoming the same, and Paint gets delivered via the store for quite some time, there was even some drama related to it.

https://interestingengineering.com/culture/rip-microsoft-pai...

Ugh so I have to unblock the Store in my firewall just to get patched. What a PITA.

Did the same and it quickly updated itself when I went into the "Paint" page (but I had to go there first). No indication of what just happened a few seconds later.

I did the same, then ran:

Get-AppxPackage -Name Microsoft.Paint | Select-Object Name, Version

But I can only get Microsoft.Paint 11.2609.401.0 and Microsoft has said different things in different places, so it's not even clear if this has the fix or not.

This article has more info on the confusion they're causing: https://windowsforum.com/news/cve-2026-83844-windows-11-pain...

If MS knew it would drive people to actually use their app store, they would have created the CVE themselves.

For a split second, I visualized you walking into a brick and mortar Microsoft Store to get your security update done on your laptop, and somewhere in the middle of that split second I caught myself thinking „typical Microsoft“, and then I came to my senses.

Wow, what a weird confluence of events