After nearly three decades of processing words in Windows, WordPad is finally being shoved out of the door with the freshly released 24H2 update.

Microsoft is finally retiring WordPad, the venerable text editor that has been a staple in Windows operating systems since Windows 95. This decision comes as part of Microsoft’s ongoing efforts ...

Goodbye, WordPad: Microsoft Retires Rich Text Editor After Nearly 30 Years Time to upgrade to Microsoft Word or limp along with Notepad for plain text documents.