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Microsoft is no longer updating WordPad and plans to remove the word processor from a future version of Windows. Instead, the software giant will recommend

The WordPad removal comes just a day after Microsoft announced it was upgrading Notepad with features like autosave and tab retraction. The Windows Notepad app in Windows 11 was updated for the first time in years in 2018 and tabs were added.

Microsoft has announced that it will no longer update WordPad and plans to remove the word processor from a future release of Windows nearly after 30 years.

WordPad is the basic word processor that was released 28 years ago with Windows 95 and has been integrated in virtually every version of the OS since...

Microsoft has announced that it will no longer update WordPad and plans to remove the word processor from a future release

Microsoft has announced that it will no longer update WordPad and plans to remove the word processor from a future release of Windows nearly after 30 years.

WordPad was initially bundled with Windows 95, but it will be discontinued in an upcoming Windows release.

Last month, after iOS and Android, Microsoft has now announced to shut down its digital assistant Cortana app on Windows 11. While Cortana in Windows as a standalone app is deprecated, the support for Cortana in Teams mobile, Microsoft Teams display, and Microsoft Teams Rooms will end in the fall of 2023.

WordPad, introduced in 1995 with the release of Windows 95, has been a quintessential component of Windows for over two decades

Having just delivered an impressive update to the much-loved text editor Notepad, Microsoft has revealed that its (slightly) more advanced sibling, WordPad, is to be discontinued.