After 28 Years, Microsoft Announces it Will Remove WordPad From Windows

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By EditorDavidSep 3, 2023, 11:34 am392 pts
"Microsoft has quietly revealed that WordPad, the basic word processor that's been included with Windows since 1995, is being retired," reports Windows blog Paul Thurrott: "WordPad is no longer being updated and will be removed in a future release of Windows," the Deprecated features for Windows client page on…

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