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 ...

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 ...

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.

Windows 11 no longer has WordPad, with Microsoft finally giving the venerable app the chop with the 24H2 update. This comes as no surprise, because Microsoft had already deprecated WordPad - that ...

Thankfully, there are now ample free options, though, this being Microsoft, I can't help but see this as yet another move to try to force someone to use Office. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if ...

Microsoft has announced that its long-running WordPad app will no longer be updated, and it will be removed in a future release of Windows. WordPad, which first debuted almost three decades ago as a ...

Along with the end of the long-running text editor, Microsoft will also be cutting support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1, starting this month. Since its inclusion in Windows 95, Microsoft is deprecating WordPad ...

Microsoft is letting go of its WordPad feature after its launch three years ago. This text editor will no longer be supported with any new updates as the company will stop its focus on the ...

Microsoft will soon delete WordPad from Windows 11. The company published a new support page detailing the upcoming removal of the old text editor in Windows 11 version 24H2, which is coming soon.

Microsoft WordPad is a basic document editor that’s been around since 1995. It comes with almost all versions of Microsoft Windows, starting from Windows 95. WordPad is mainly used for editing text ...

Genuine question, because this is alien to me: How does a text file become that large? I'm assuming: by having a lot of text. But the text files I've thought of as very big, have still just been in ...