Microsoft has disclosed that WordPad will no longer receive updates and the word processor will be eliminated from a later version of Windows.
Instead of the simple WordPad utility that has come preinstalled with Windows since Windows 95, the software giant has advised the use of Microsoft Word, a premium word processor that has always been significantly more feature-rich.
“WordPad is no longer being updated and will be removed in a future release of Windows,” Microsoft Support said on Friday.
“We recommend Microsoft Word for rich text documents like .doc and .rtf and Windows Notepad for plain text documents like .txt.”
The news is coming days after Microsoft stated it was updating Notepad with features like autosave and automatic restoration of tabs.
For the first time in a long time, Microsoft updated the Windows Notepad program in 2018 and later added tabs to the Windows 11 edition.
