neowin[.]net/news/microsoft-kills-wordpad-will-remove-the-app-from-windows-in-future-updates/
As Neowin points out it's been there since Win95 -- it will be missed, if only as something benign that we're used to being there.
Microsoft has updated the official documentation with a notification about WordPad deprecation. The company says WordPad is no longer in development, it will not receive new features or updates, and a future Windows update will remove the program from the operating system.