Microsoft deprecated WordPad, the old text editor first introduced in Windows 95, in September 2023. Later, release notes for one of the Windows 11 preview builds confirmed that the company plans to ...

Pour one out for the poor WordPad. Microsoft killed its free rich text editor in late 2023 in an effort to switch users to its premium Office apps or their free web-based versions. While WordPad is ...

In a nutshell: Microsoft has made it abundantly clear that WordPad is slated for retirement. A newly published document outlines a specific timeline for the discontinuation of the longstanding ...

Whatever its other flaws, Windows 11 has given the operating system’s built-in app suite its biggest overhaul in many years. For apps like Calculator, the changes have been merely cosmetic, but ...

Microsoft has announced the removal of WordPad along with a few other features of Windows. However, the original support document didn’t specify which version of Windows operating system will be ...

It’s now official that when Windows 11’s big 24H2 update rolls around later this year, we’ll be saying farewell to WordPad. As Windows Latest spotted, we now have fresh info from Microsoft which ...

Those of you who still use WordPad in Windows will at some point have to find another program to open and read your favorite documents. In the latest edition of its list of deprecated Windows features ...

Microsoft is gearing up to remove WordPad from its operating system. Wikimedia Commons It looks like Microsoft is planning to remove WordPad from its Windows operating system. To those unaware, ...

Thankfully, there are now ample free options, though, this being Microsoft, I can't help but see this as yet another move to try to force someone to use Office. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if ...

The tech-giants are seemingly ending up things in the software world where it all started, just like Microsoft. The tech-giant seems to discontinue its famous Wordpad. It’s been 28 years since Wordpad ...