Microsoft kills off WordPad

Stefan Mileschin · 5th September 2023, 19:11

Been with us since 1995

Software King of the World Microsoft has revealed that WordPad, the basic word processor that's been included with Windows since 1995, is being retired.

On a Microsoft blog it states that WordPad is no longer being updated and will be removed in a future release of Windows.

"We recommend Microsoft Word for rich text documents like .doc and .rtf and Windows Notepad for plain text documents like .txt."

While Microsoft Word might be heavy to fill the WordPad role, RTF is rarely used these days, and anyone can access the web versions of Word for free if needed. In fact, we can't remember the last time we used WordPad.

When it came out it was much better than Apple's word processing software, but already behind Word.

The actual date of removal is unclear, it will probably be about the same time it kills off its old Transport Layer Security protocols to make Windows 11 more secure.

https://fudzilla.com/news/57526-micr...ls-off-wordpad

5th September 2023, 19:11	#1
Stefan Mileschin [M] Reviewer Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania Posts: 148,726	Microsoft kills off WordPad Been with us since 1995 Software King of the World Microsoft has revealed that WordPad, the basic word processor that's been included with Windows since 1995, is being retired. On a Microsoft blog it states that WordPad is no longer being updated and will be removed in a future release of Windows. "We recommend Microsoft Word for rich text documents like .doc and .rtf and Windows Notepad for plain text documents like .txt." While Microsoft Word might be heavy to fill the WordPad role, RTF is rarely used these days, and anyone can access the web versions of Word for free if needed. In fact, we can't remember the last time we used WordPad. When it came out it was much better than Apple's word processing software, but already behind Word. The actual date of removal is unclear, it will probably be about the same time it kills off its old Transport Layer Security protocols to make Windows 11 more secure. https://fudzilla.com/news/57526-micr...ls-off-wordpad

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