Microsoft has revealed that WordPad is no longer being updated and will be removed in a future version of Windows. The company shared the news in an updated support article that details all of the deprecated features for Windows, which now includes WordPad, with a deprecation date of September 1, 2023. WordPad is a well-known word processor that Microsoft originally released in 1995, 28 years ago.
WordPad is no longer being updated and will be removed in a future release of Windows. We recommend Microsoft Word for rich text documents like .doc and .rtf and Windows Notepad for plain text documents like .txt.