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.

Microsoft is killing off WordPad, its decades-old text editor in Windows. The company will no longer update the software. It will then remove it from a future version of Windows. WordPad has been ...

Microsoft has confirmed that it will no longer support WordPad, a text editing feature for Windows, as part of its deprecation process for Windows 11. WordPad, introduced in 1995, was a simple but ...

The company broke the news through a support note stating, "WordPad is no longer being updated and will be removed in a future release of Windows.

Ever since Microsoft killed WordPad in 2024, the much-simpler Notepad app has been ... The latest news is that Notepad will ...

WordPad, introduced in 1995 with Windows 95, has been officially deprecated and is removed in the Windows 11 version 24H2 update.

Microsoft has made it clear that starting with the Insider build 26020, WordPad will cease to be a part of Windows 11.

With the arrival of Windows 11 version 24H2, WordPad is officially gone. Want to keep using it? You're in luck.

The latest Canary build of Windows 11 is missing WordPad. Microsoft says WordPad will not be reinstallable after updating.

With regards to the text getting "garbled up" at the bottom of the Wordpad screen, I get the exact same behavior in MS Word and other text/graphics applications (even Internet Explorer). I would ...

In a near-future update, WordPad will be removed from Windows installations, but for now it will not be installed on fresh Windows installs.

Microsoft is killing off WordPad, its decades-old text editor in Windows. The company will no longer update the software. It will then remove it from a future version of Windows. WordPad has been ...