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Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years

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Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years

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Microsoft announced today that it will deprecate WordPad with a future Windows update as it's no longer under active development, though the company did not specify the precise timing of this change.

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WordPad was often used if a file was too big for Notepad, over 64 KB. But now there are better options.

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