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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.

Well, 24H2 is now here - or it's rolling out, anyway - and as promised, there is no WordPad anymore. Furthermore, fresh installs of Windows 11 won't come with WordPad either.

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 is a deprecated Windows feature,” said the Windows Insider blog announcing the discontinuation of WordPad. Microsoft had listed WordPad as a “deprecated” app in September 2023.

Technically speaking, WordPad was announced as being deprecated back on September 1st, 2023, according to Microsoft’s documentation, after a 30-year run.

The removal of WordPad is expected to occur in the “future release of Windows,” speculated to be the Windows 12 version anticipated in 2024, loaded with AI-powered features.

WordPad made its original debut as part of Windows 95, the version of Windows that rolled out to consumers in August 1995. The operating system required a 40-megahertz processor, 4 megabytes of ...

Wordpad was first introduced as part of Windows 95 nearly 30 years ago. Since then, Microsoft has added the more familiar Notepad, which has finally been getting a few new upgrades of its own.

The WordPad program is a simple word processing program that is included with every copy of Windows. Even though Microsoft removed the ability to save a document in the .doc format using WordPad ...

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