WordPad, a built-in text editor for Windows, is dead. Microsoft has updated its official documentation with a notification about the app's deprecation and future removal from modern Windows versions.

It’s always sad to say goodbye to old applications that we used to use over the decades. However, the march of progress must continue, even when some of our favorite programs get overstepped. After ...

WordPad had to die because it was a simple program that did a single thing well with minimal overhead. Thankfully, now that it’s dead, Microsoft can redirect their resources to adding a 14th ...

Windows sets Notepad as the default program for opening text files. Although you can use Notepad to create basic documents that don't require formatting, Wordpad lets you add images, customized text, ...

Whatever its other flaws, Windows 11 has given the operating system’s built-in app suite its biggest overhaul in many years. For apps like Calculator, the changes have been merely cosmetic, but ...

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 ...