Nearly thirty years ago, Microsoft unveiled WordPad, a basic text editing software that later often came pre-installed on Windows machines, but now it’s going the way of Windows Movie Maker and ...

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 ...

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WordPad, a Windows rich editing app that has been a mainstay of the platform since Windows 95, is on its way out. Microsoft has marked it for deprecation, a death knell that signals that it will be ...

The Windows 11 2024 Update, otherwise known as version 24H2, started rolling out yesterday, but if you’ve already updated, you might notice something is missing. WordPad’s deprecation has become a ...

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 ...

WordPad first shipped as part of Windows 95, but it’s being removed in a future release of Windows. WordPad first shipped as part of Windows 95, but it’s being removed in a future release of Windows.

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 ...

Technology giant Microsoft has discontinued WordPad, which had been part of every Windows operating system for the last 28 years. “Starting with this build, the WordPad and People apps will no longer ...

Software King of the World Microsoft has revealed that WordPad, the basic word processor that's been included with Windows since 1995, is being retired. On a Microsoft blog it states that WordPad is ...

Since the release of Windows 95, all of us have encountered Microsoft’s rich text editor WordPad once in our life. WordPad is a powerful yet simple version of MS Word which we use almost daily in our ...