Microsoft has announced that as of September 1st, 2023, WordPad is officially a deprecated app.
WordPad is no longer being updated and will be removed in a future release of Windows.
Microsoft WordPad exists in a weird state.
It was first added to Windows in 1995, andwas last updatedaround the time Windows 8 was released.
Microsoft is pointing people to use Notepad for plain text files and Microsoft Word for rich text documents.
