Microsoft Corp. plans to phase out WordPad, the free word processor that has shipped with Windows for the past 28 years. The company disclosed the move in a support note released on Friday.

Although it is weird to see WordPad go after so many years in the Windows trenches, a standalone word processor without online functionality or modern features doesn't really make sense in 2023.

RIP, WordPad: Microsoft will remove this longtime word-processing app in a future Windows update by Todd Bishop on September 5, 2023 at 9:55 am Share 2 Tweet Reddit Email ...

In this post, we will show you how to download the Google Docs Desktop app for Windows 11/10. Google Docs is a web-based word processor app.

The latest round of Windows 11 updates has finally delivered Notepad in its finest form, as arguably now the best, most reliable offline word processor around.