The basic WordPad app has shipped as part of Windows since Windows 95. but Microsoft announced last year that it’s removing it from Windows 11. Now we have a rough date for the removal. “WordPad will ...

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 announced that the application was deprecated ...

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 ...

TL;DR: Microsoft Insiders participating in the Canary Channel for Windows 11 may recall that Redmond removed WordPad from new OS installs earlier this month. Now with the latest preview build (26040), ...

Microsoft has officially discontinued WordPad, the primary word processor bundled with each Windows version since 1995. The tech giant will not include WordPad in Windows 11 version 24H2, which began ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. We're back with another exciting episode of the Windows Central Podcast, and on this week's ...

Trumann started writing for news around 2017-2018, with a specialization in local news and gaming reviews for a local paper. He began writing for GameRant in June 2021 as one of the team's Weekend ...

It’s always sad to say goodbye to old applications that we used to use over the decades. However, the march of progress must continue, even when some of our favorite programs get overstepped. After ...

Windows 11's big feature update in September included a long list of minor changes, plus the Copilot AI assistant; that update was followed by Windows 11 23H2 in late October, which reset the ...

WordPad had to die because it was a simple program that did a single thing well with minimal overhead. Thankfully, now that it’s dead, Microsoft can redirect their resources to adding a 14th ...