The famous tech giant Microsoft has taken a shocking decision. The company announced that WordPad would be discontinued. This software has been in the Windows operating system for almost 30 years. People use it in many ways while doing text work. Those who run Windows must be familiar with WordPad. Till now users are using it for free, but Microsoft has announced that now it will be completely discontinued. Let's see the complete details about it.
WordPad has been present in the Windows operating system brought by Microsoft for a long time. It has been running since the time of Windows 95 edition. This software has been making people's work easier for the last 30 years . Till now, many updates have come in Windows OS. Despite all this, WordPad is still running.
WordPad will shut down
Now Microsoft has made preparations to shut it down. The company said in a blog post that this free word processing software will not be included in the new update of Windows coming soon. However, it has not yet been announced when this update will be available. The thing to note here is that Microsoft already has an optional WordPad.
Other options besides WordPad
WordPad is available as an optional feature from the time of Windows 10 operating system. Users can install it by going to Microsoft Optional Features Control Panel. If you do not have Microsoft WordPad, then you can use MS Word.
Apart from this, Libre Office, Zoho Docs, WPS Office, Google Docs and third party word processing software can be used as another option.
WordPad shutdown effect
Removing WordPad will not have much impact on users. Because still very few people are using it. People have already shifted to other advanced softwares, or are using third party softwares more. It is believed that removing Word Pad will not cause any problem to the people.
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