WordPad is lastly going away. Microsoft has introduced that it’s going to not replace WordPad and plans to take away the phrase processor from a future launch of Home windows 11. In its place, Microsoft will advocate Phrase, its paid phrase processor that has at all times been way more highly effective than WordPad, which has shipped with Home windows since 1995.
“WordPad is not being up to date and might be eliminated in a future launch of Home windows. We advocate Microsoft Phrase for wealthy textual content paperwork like .doc and .rtf and Home windows Notepad for plain textual content paperwork like .txt,” reads a help notice printed by Microsoft on Friday.
The WordPad elimination comes only a day after Microsoft introduced it was upgrading Notepad with options like autosave and tab retraction. The Home windows Notepad app in Home windows 11 was up to date for the primary time in years in 2018 and tabs had been added. However as a substitute of giving the same therapy to WordPad, Microsoft is discontinuing it for good. I’m not certain how this determination will have an effect on Home windows 11 customers. However for what it’s price, it would have a minimal affect as a result of I’ve not often seen any PC person accessing WordPad. It’s both the Notepad or Microsoft Phrase relying on the wants.
Cortana’s going away, too
Final month, after iOS and Android, Microsoft introduced to close down its digital assistant Cortana app on Home windows 11. Whereas Cortana in Home windows as a standalone app is deprecated, the help for Cortana in Groups cell, Microsoft Groups show, and Microsoft Groups Rooms will finish within the fall of 2023. Cortana’s doubtless substitute is Copilot, which is at present part of the Home windows Insider programme. In August, Microsoft began rolling out the Home windows Copilot replace on PCs working Home windows 11 model 22631.2129. That was an extension to the kickoff that allowed solely a handful of testers to entry Home windows Copilot. Now, there are extra testers giving suggestions on the performance that brings AI to nearly each side of Home windows OS.
In June, Microsoft eliminated among the outdated settings below Folder Choices in File Explorer as a part of an effort to scale back the variety of File Explorer settings on Home windows 11.
— Written with inputs from IANS
