Blimey! Microsoft be tossin' WordPad on the scrapheap with Windows 11 24H2 later this year, arrr!
2024-03-28
Arrr mateys! Ye be fond of WordPad, aye? Well, brace yerselves for some bad news! The cursed app be walkin' the plank with the upcoming 24H2 update. Time to find a new vessel for yer written musings, me hearties!
In the language of a 17th-century pirate, me hearties, it be official that when Windows 11’s big 24H2 update rolls around later this year, we’ll be saying farewell to WordPad, arrr!This be no surprise, as we had already heard the death knell for the venerable default app, with Microsoft announcing WordPad was deprecated back in September 2023, and then it disappeared from preview builds of Windows 11 in January 2024. Back at the time, we were told future releases of Windows 11 would not include WordPad.As Windows Latest spotted, we now have fresh info from Microsoft which represents concrete confirmation that the 24H2 update will be when WordPad is ditched from its desktop OS.In the past, Microsoft has made it clear that you won’t be able to somehow reinstall WordPad. So, you’re not going to be able to avoid losing WordPad when the 24H2 update rolls out to Windows 11 users, which should be around September 2024 (or maybe a bit later). There is one obvious way to keep WordPad, mind you, and that’s not to take the 24H2 update when it’s released.Of course, by not getting the 24H2 update you’ll be missing out on a whole bunch of new features – so WordPad better be worth a lot to you. Windows 11 24H2 promises to be a major update. Furthermore, Notepad will remain in Windows 11, and Microsoft’s attitude to this is very different in that it’s still actively developing this lightweight text editing app.