Microsoft has announced that its long-running WordPad app will no longer be updated, and it will be removed in a future release of Windows. WordPad, which first debuted almost three decades ago as a ...

In a development that marks the end of an era, Microsoft has declared that its Windows 11 update will no longer include WordPad. The company has not only decided to pull the plug on the word ...

We probably should have known something was up when they didn’t give WordPad a dark mode. Just before the long holiday weekend, Microsoft added WordPad to its list of “Deprecated Features” for Windows ...

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.

Microsoft deprecated a lot of Windows features in 2023. One of them was WordPad, the default rich text editor introduced years ago. Most of the time, Microsoft allows users to continue using ...

WordPad, the quirky text editor that’s been a part of Windows for nearly 30 years, is getting the boot. The latest Windows 11 Insider build (26020) no longer includes WordPad, and Microsoft plans to ...

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 ...

I have basically never used WordPad. Not because I didn't know about it, or anything, but because I never felt like there was enough of a gap between Notepad and Word for it to be useful for me. And ...