· Microsoft has announced the deprecation of WordPad, a basic text-editing application. · This change will come with a future Windows update, although the exact timing remains unspecified. · WordPad has been a part of Windows since Windows 95, offering a simple word processor and document editor. · Microsoft now recommends Microsoft Word for rich text documents and Windows Notepad for plain text documents as alternatives to WordPad. · While WordPad used to be automatically installed, it became optional starting with Windows 10 Insider Build 19551 in February 2020. · Users could uninstall it using the 'Optional features' control panel. · Although not explicitly stated, WordPad's discontinuation may be related to ...