Microsoft plans to remove the word processor WordPad from a future release of Windows, the Verge reported on Sunday.
Instead, the software giant will recommend Microsoft Word, its paid word processor that has always been far more feature-rich than the basic WordPad app.
“WordPad is no longer being updated and will be removed in a future release of Windows,” reads a support note published by Microsoft.
It added: “We recommend Microsoft Word for rich text documents like .doc and .rtf and Windows Notepad for plain text documents like .txt.”
The removal news comes just a day after Microsoft revealed it’s upgrading Notepad with features like autosave and automatic restoral of tabs.
The tech company updated its Windows Notepad app in 2018 for the first time in years and went on to add tabs to the Windows 11 version.
Microsoft will remove WordPad entirely in a “future release of Windows,” which will most likely be the Windows 12 version.
Meanwhile, the upcoming version of Microsoft’s Edge web browser will remove five features.
Edge 117 is set to become stable by 14 September 2023, as reported by Neowin and 9to5Google.
Five features are scheduled for removal, namely Math Solver, Picture Dictionary, Citations, Grammar Tools, and Kids Mode.
The tech firm highlighted the discontinuation of these features in the release notes of its last beta channel update on 25 August.
