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 word processor is a staple of the computer world. In response to writers needing to get work done, the late 1970s and early 1980s saw hundreds of word processors vying for market space. Microsoft ...

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.

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 is officially killing off WordPad, a basic text-editing app that seemed ripe for the reaper for some time. The tech giant announced this weekend that it'll deprecate WordPad, meaning it will ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft is deprecating its WordPad software from Windows, leading to the end of a decades-old staple, the company announced on Friday. WordPad will no longer be available on future versions of ...

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 ...