WordPad, introduced in 1995 with Windows 95, has been officially deprecated and is removed in the Windows 11 version 24H2 update. Microsoft recommends using Microsoft Word for rich text documents and ...

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. “WordPad ...

Just the other day, Windows released Insider Preview Build 26020 to kick off the new year with a handful of new features and capabilities. However, this update also took away some features with the ...

The Windows 11 2024 Update, otherwise known as version 24H2, started rolling out yesterday, but if you’ve already updated, you might notice something is missing. WordPad’s deprecation has become a ...

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.

Notepad, a text editor, performs relatively fewer functions than WordPad and MS Word. On the other hand, WordPad and Word are very close to each other but still distinct in many ways. This post will ...

Included with every version of Windows 7 is WordPad, a lightweight program that gives you the basic functionality of a word processor. By default, Windows 7 includes a shortcut to WordPad from within ...

If you don't have the Microsoft Office 2010 software suite installed on computers in your small business, you can use WordPad – a native Windows 7 text editor – to open, create and edit text files.

Any idea on why my Wordpad's "Save" window that pops-up on document closing (i.e. the one with Yes, No, Cancel options/buttons) has Cyrillic characters instead of Latin ones (as you can see it in the ...

Yesterday Microsoft released patches for some 28 flaws in Windows, IE, and Office, most of them critical, in the largest ever Patch Tuesday update. The company also issued a bulletin for another ...