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Microsoft retires WordPad after 28 years — app no longer available as of Windows 11 24H2
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WordPad didn't exist until Windows 95. You might be thinking of Microsoft Write, which predated it.
In Windows 95, wordpad was still write.exe, is it possible they just renamed it?
Definitely possible, but I think WordPad in Windows 95 was written from scratch.