WordPad, a basic, albeit dependable, staple of the Windows operating system that users could launch for basic word processing duties for the last 28 years, is officially dead. Confirmation comes by way of an updated list of deprecated features that can be found on learn.microsoft.com, which now includes a note about how WordPad has been removed from all versions of Windows “starting in Windows 11, version 24H2 and Windows Server 2025.” A Copilot+ update for Window 11 that Microsoft shared yesterday can be found below.
WordPad is removed from all editions of Windows starting in Windows 11, version 24H2 and Windows Server 2025. We recommend Microsoft Word for rich text documents like .doc and .rtf and Windows Notepad for plain text documents like .txt