Microsoft has quietly announced that it will be killing off WordPad, the first-party word processing app that has been included
published on its website last week on 1 September 2023, which was first spotted by tech website Neowin.
“WordPad is no longer being updated and will be removed in a future release of Windows,” Microsoft wrote in the document. “We recommend Microsoft Word for rich text documents like .doc and .rtf and Windows Notepad for plain text documents like .txt.” For the longest time , WordPad serves as an entry-level word processing software and is included for free with every copy of the operating system. However, unlike its big brother Microsoft Word, the app only offers basic formatting tools and supports a handful of document types.
As you’d expect, its limitations resulted in the app becoming easily overshadowed by free alternative word processors such as OpenOffice and Google Docs, as well as Windows’ other built-in application NotePad. The latter, despite having less formatting tools than WordPad, is the more preferred choice by users for jotting down quick notes and so on.
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