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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a nutshell: Microsoft has made it abundantly clear that WordPad is slated for retirement. A newly published document outlines a specific timeline for the discontinuation of the longstanding ...

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.

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 ...