The latest Canary build of Windows 11 is missing WordPad. Microsoft says WordPad will not be reinstallable after updating. Microsoft kills off WordPad, asks users to try Word or Notepad instead ...

They are Notepad, Microsoft Paint, and and WordPad. None of the apps are set to disappear from Windows 10, but users will have the choice to not install them assuming they remain optional features ...

Microsoft is killing off WordPad, its decades-old text editor in Windows. The company will no longer update the software. It will then remove it from a future version of Windows.

Meanwhile, WordPad, a free word processor that lives between Notepad and Word, is not long for this world. In a future update for Windows 11, Microsoft has confirmed its plans to remove WordPad ...

Wordpad was first introduced as part of Windows 95 nearly 30 years ago. Since then, Microsoft has added the more familiar Notepad, which has finally been getting a few new upgrades of its own.

Notepad was released in 1983, a full 12 years before WordPad. The initial version of the tool launched not for Windows but rather MS-DOS, Microsoft’s first operating system.

NotePad Gets an Upgrade. Just a few days prior to the announcement that WordPad would be deprecated, a significant upgrade to Notepad’s features was announced.

WordPad lacks things like spellcheck and footnotes but also isn't as quick and simple as Notepad. It's not the only Microsoft casualty of late as the company also scrapped its virtual assistant ...

About a year ago, Microsoft announced that it was retiring Notepad's word processing counterpart, WordPad. Like Notepad, this program has been present on Windows computers for at least 30 years.

Users will be sent to Word instead ...