Article 6EDR9 Microsoft is removing WordPad from Windows after nearly 30 years

Microsoft is removing WordPad from Windows after nearly 30 years

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Tom Warren
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Microsoft is no longer updating WordPad and plans to remove the word processor from a future release of Windows. The software giant will instead recommend Microsoft Word, its paid word processor that has always been far more feature rich than the basic WordPad app that has shipped as part of Windows since Windows 95.

WordPad is no longer being updated and will be removed in a future release of Windows," reads a support note published by Microsoft on Friday. We recommend Microsoft Word for rich text documents like .doc and .rtf and Windows Notepad for plain text documents like .txt."

Screenshot by Tom Warren / The Verge WordPad hasn't been updated significantly since Windows 8.

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