The Purge Continues - Microsoft Kills WordPad - Who's Next?

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Microsoft is on a chopping spree of late. After chopping off Cortana and Visual Studio for Mac, the latest victim of this trend is WordPad - a program that was part of Windows since Windows 95!

In a Blog Post on the official site, the company outlines features that will be deprecated from the future versions of Windows and this time around, WordPad made it to the list. Microsoft will not only stop supporting the unfortunate piece of software, it will actually remove it from the future Windows updates. Microsoft recommends Microsoft Word and NotePad as alternatives depending upon the requirements. Here is the official details and mitigation:

WordPad is no longer being updated and will be removed in a future release of Windows.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

 

Analysis

WordPad began its life almost three decades ago as a replacement to another software - Microsoft Write. It was shipped with Windows 95 and since then, was part of Windows up until now. However, WordPad was always a confusing option between Microsoft Word and NotePad. Free programs like NotePad++ alongside the free web version of Microsoft Word has almost made WordPad a redundancy. I won't be surprised if the majority of the Windows users have not used WordPad ever. It would be nice to see if Microsoft decides to release the source code of the program and let the community take it from there. However, for now, Cortana must be happy to welcome the new resident of the land of oblivion! For us, we are asking "Who's Next?"

Source

Microsoft Official Blog

Comments

  1. AnonymousSeptember 8, 2023 at 8:54 PM

    I never saw anyone using WordPad

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    1. AnonymousSeptember 8, 2023 at 11:09 PM

      Very true. It was a solution no one asked for

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