Microsoft kills its free MS Word alternative WordPad after nearly 30 years; here’s everything you need to know

Microsoft will not be updating WordPad anymore and will be removing it via a future Windows release. Instead, Redmond’s tech giant is recommending its paid and honestly, better and feature-rich word processing application – Microsoft Word for rich text documents and Windows Notepad for simpler and plainer text documents.

This comes after a report that Microsoft is revamping its Notepad to maybe compete with the likes of Apple Notes, available on Mac. One notable tip says that the revamp will allow Notepad to “auto save and auto restore tabs” which may be truly helpful.