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Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years
(www.bleepingcomputer.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
I just use notepad++ when I have to use Windows PCs.
Wordpad is a rich text editor not a plain text editor.
I can't say I've used Wordpad intentionally - ever -, but they do serve different functions.
If you ever have to open a .rtf file (you won't) it's one of the few programs that natively supports it.