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 ...

Microsoft Corp. plans to phase out WordPad, the free word processor that has shipped with Windows for the past 28 years. The company disclosed the move in a support note released on Friday. “WordPad ...

In September 2023, Microsoft announced the surprising end of their free text editing program. For many, WordPad was a simple but useful alternative to Microsoft Word — but it’s no longer part of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Windows 11 no longer has WordPad, with Microsoft finally giving the venerable app the chop with the 24H2 update. This comes as no surprise, because ...

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 ...

Microsoft says the Cortana, Tips, and WordPad applications will be automatically removed on systems upgraded to the upcoming Windows 11 24H2 release. This was shared in a Thursday blog announcing that ...

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 ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Microsoft has given WordPad the chop, or what amounts to the final pulling of the curtain on the venerable app in Windows 11, after the software giant ...