American company Microsoft Windows is ditching its decades-old text editor, WordPad.
The company will no longer update this software. Later him Windows will also be removed from future versions of
WordPad has been around since Windows 95. It has similar features to Word and Notepad.
“WordPad is no longer being updated and will be removed from Windows in the future,” Microsoft wrote in a note. We recommend Microsoft Word for text documents such as DOC and RTF and Windows Notepad for plain text documents.’
Unlike Microsoft Word, WordPad has always been offered for free while Microsoft Word requires a subscription fee.
But WordPad lacked many of Word’s features, such as a spell checker, and it didn’t save in some important formats.
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The support note does not explain why the software is being removed. It is inserted into a page of an unwanted software.
which states that newer versions (of Windows) also often remove features and functionality because a new option has been added to them.
Microsoft’s announcement comes shortly after it released new updates for Notepad, which is also free but doesn’t have the same formatting or features as WordPad or Word.
After the recent addition of dark mode and other changes, it will come with auto-save and other new features.
Other third-party options, such as Google Docs, with more feature-rich and simpler software, offer many of the same features.
WordPad, on the other hand, remained unchanged for a long time. It was last updated more than ten years ago with Windows 8 and the design was slightly changed even then.
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