WordPad has been a part of Windows for years. It was first shipped with Windows 95 back in 1995. Now nearly 28 years later, Microsoft is planning to remove WordPad from future releases of Windows.
WordPad is a text editing software that has more features than Notepad but fewer features than Microsoft Word. Basically, the WordPad lets users create and edit documents with formatted text and images. Since the Windows 10 Insider Build 19551 release, WordPad became an optional Windows feature.
On Microsoft’s support documents, Microsoft confirmed that WordPad has been deprecated and will be removed in future releases of Windows. The company suggests users use Word for rich documents and Notepad for plain text documents.
“WordPad is no longer being updated and will be removed in a future release of Windows.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,” reads the support page.
Although WordPad was a good software, but I don’t think it had many users. People either use Notepad or MS Word. There are also several better alternatives offering word processing capabilities.
