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 announced the deprecation of WordPad in September 2023, stating that the basic Windows word processor would no longer receive updates. Subsequently, WordPad was completely removed from ...

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 ...

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

For the first time in 40 years, Windows will ship without built-in word processor WordPad is one of the few built-in apps not to be updated in Windows 11.