Microsoft Retires Word Pad

[Demon_Skeith]

Microsoft will no longer be updating WordPad, a basic word processor program that supports rich text editing, and will no longer include it in Windows, the company said in a blog post Friday. The program has been on all Windows OS since Windows 95.

"WordPad is no longer being updated and will be removed in a future release of Windows," the post reads. "We recommend Microsoft Word for rich text documents like .doc and .rtf and Windows Notepad for plain text documents like .txt."

Microsoft did not give a reason for the change, or name a specific date for when WordPad will be retired. A representative for the company said Microsoft had nothing to add beyond the information in the blog post.

 

[froggyboy604]

I'm surprise WordPad didn't get retired sooner.

I wonder how much free storage space would be recovered after removing WordPad.

 

[Artisan Vistra]

Who needs Wordpad when you have Notepad? Man the lost media over the years (unless you run a VM).

 

[Grungie]

I wonder how much free storage space would be recovered after removing WordPad.

Nothing substantial for anyone to get worked up over.

 

[DaBoss38]

Would have thought it would be retired earlier, but I'm glad they are finally retiring it as I doubt anyone or very few people uses Word Pad anymore.

 

[cm2]

Who needs Wordpad when you have Notepad? Man the lost media over the years (unless you run a VM).

Notepad FTW ! lol

 

[Demon_Skeith]

Who needs Wordpad when you have Notepad? Man the lost media over the years (unless you run a VM).

Notepad FTW ! lol

Notepad++ ya fools!

 

[cm2]

Notepad++ ya fools!

But that's not made by Microsoft lol

 

[Demon_Skeith]

But that's not made by Microsoft lol

All. The. Better!

 

[Grungie]

Notepad++ ya fools!

Somebody gets it.

 

[DaBoss38]

Notepad++ ya fools!

Yep, I really enjoy using Notepad++!

 

[NBK*Twitch]

Notepad++ ya fools!

Notepad++ FTW fo sho .

 

[ZandraJoi]

I never had a use for any of the Word Pad or Notepad. I just use regular Microsoft Word as I feel I can do more with it. But I can see how the pads would be beneficial to jot down notes, keep a list, etc.

 

[Dead2009]

inb4 Notepad gets retired next year lol.

 

[Grungie]

inb4 Notepad gets retired next year lol.

Doubt it, unless they push out another text editor to replace it.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

inb4 Notepad gets retired next year lol.

Give me a reason to get notepad++