After nearly three decades, Microsoft is officially retiring WordPad, one of its oldest and most recognizable programs. The simple text editor, which first appeared in Windows 95, will be completely ...

Microsoft has officially discontinued WordPad, the primary word processor bundled with each Windows version since 1995. The tech giant will not include WordPad in Windows 11 version 24H2, which began ...

TL;DR: Microsoft is ushering in a lightweight text editor for Windows 11 called Edit, which it says pays homage to the classic MS-DOS Editor experience, but with a suitably modern interface. It's ...