Microsoft has quietly revealed plans to stop updating its longstanding WordPad app and remove it from Windows entirely, though it's not yet clear when or how that might happen. This is a big deal ...

The word processor is a staple of the computer world. In response to writers needing to get work done, the late 1970s and early 1980s saw hundreds of word processors vying for market space. Microsoft ...

After around 30 years of existence, WordPad is finally saying goodbye. In the Windows 11 Build 26020 Insider Preview’s Canary Channel, Microsoft announced that WordPad will not be auto-installed after ...

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 ...

The recent Canary build of Windows 11 does not include WordPad. It appears the app that was introduced in Windows 95 is now being retired. Microsoft is expected to also remove a few other aging apps.

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Microsoft will soon delete WordPad from Windows 11. The company published a new support page detailing the upcoming removal of the old text editor in Windows 11 version 24H2, which is coming soon.

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Microsoft is killing off WordPad, its decades-old text editor in Windows. The company will no longer update the software. It will then remove it from a future version of Windows. WordPad has been ...

Having just delivered an impressive update to the much-loved text editor Notepad, Microsoft has revealed that its (slightly) more advanced sibling, WordPad, is to be discontinued. Serving as a halfway ...

WordPad has been a vector for malware in the past, so if they include it they have to keep up with security fixes. The title mentions Word, but it affected WordPad too. I remember back when you could ...