Microsoft is now not updating WordPad and plans to take away the phrase processor from a future launch of Home windows. The software program big will as a substitute advocate Microsoft Phrase, its paid phrase processor that has at all times been much more characteristic wealthy than the essential WordPad app that has shipped as a part of Home windows since Home windows 95.

“WordPad is now not being up to date and might be eliminated in a future launch of Home windows,” reads a assist notice printed by Microsoft on Friday. “We advocate Microsoft Phrase for wealthy textual content paperwork like .doc and .rtf and Home windows Notepad for plain textual content paperwork like .txt.”

Information of the WordPad removing comes only a day after Microsoft revealed it’s upgrading Notepad with options like autosave and automated restoral of tabs. Microsoft up to date its Home windows Notepad app in 2018 for the primary time in years and went on so as to add tabs to the Home windows 11 model.

WordPad hasn’t had the identical quantity of consideration, although. The phrase processor was up to date with Home windows 7’s Ribbon UI, however after a slight Home windows 8 redesign it hasn’t had any main additions. Microsoft will now take away WordPad fully in a “future launch of Home windows,” which is able to most definitely be the Home windows 12 model we’re anticipating to see in 2024 with loads of AI-powered options.