The Redmond giant recently announced that it will deprecateWordPad, which means it willno longerbe apartof theWindowsoperating system.
In other words, the companyrecommendsusersswitchto its paid word processor likeMicrosoft Wordor the free-to-useMicrosoft Notepad.
WordPad is no longer being updated and will be removed in a future release of Windows.
WordPad got its last significant update during the Windows 8 redesign.
Since then, the company has not regularly updated the basic word processor.
For instance, the software giant was recently spotted testing themost notable feature for Notepad: Autosave.
They can then pick up from where they left off the next time they bring up the app.
Further, Notepad will automatically restore previously open tabs and unsaved content and edits across those open tabs.
