{"id":506566,"date":"2023-09-04T13:25:40","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T11:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=506566"},"modified":"2023-09-04T13:29:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T11:29:06","slug":"goodbye-wordpad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/506566-goodbye-wordpad.html","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye WordPad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is retiring its basic word processor WordPad after 28 years, Thurrott <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thurrott.com\/windows\/windows-11\/288088\/rip-wordpad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>reports<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The publication spotted the announcement in the notes of the <em>Deprecated features for Windows clients<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/whats-new\/deprecated-features\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>page<\/strong><\/a> on Microsoft Learn posted on 1 September 2023.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;WordPad is no longer being updated and will be removed in a future release of Windows,&#8221; the page stated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We recommend Microsoft Word for rich text documents like .doc and .rtf and Windows Notepad for plain text documents like .txt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>WordPad has been available as a type of mid-way between Notepad and Microsoft Word since it was first released in 1995.<\/p>\n<p>While it offers greater text editing capabilities than Notepad, it does not have as many features as the latter. However, unlike Word, it is completely free.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to end WordPad is unlikely to trouble many users as the app has not received updates in many years.<\/p>\n<p>WordPad&#8217;s .rtf file format is also widely supported by other word processing software.<\/p>\n<p>For the most basic text editing, Microsoft is still regularly updating Notepad.<\/p>\n<p>While Microsoft Word is a paid product in its offline form, its web version is available online for free, as is Google&#8217;s alternative \u2014 Google Docs.<\/p>\n<p>Another free alternative is the open-source productivity suite LibreOffice, which was forked from OpenOffice.org.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/505168-microsoft-could-bring-ai-power-to-paint-on-windows-11.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Microsoft could bring AI power to Paint on Windows 11<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPad has been available as a type of mid-way between Notepad and Microsoft Word since it was first released in 1995.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341042,"featured_media":506590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[89080,4552,35,31922,123,30110,50633,89084,89078,89076],"class_list":["post-506566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-document-apps","tag-google-docs","tag-headline","tag-libreoffice","tag-microsoft","tag-microsoft-word","tag-notepad","tag-thurrott","tag-word-processors","tag-wordpad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506566"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341042"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":506638,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506566\/revisions\/506638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}