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Microsoft retires WordPad after 28 years — app no longer available as of Windows 11 24H2
(www.tomshardware.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
What if I want rich text?
LaTeX is always free and works on many systems.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_markup_language
https://www.markdownguide.org/
https://typst.app/
https://asciidoctor.org/
https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/restructuredtext/basics.html
https://orgmode.org/
Any good missing?
Well and then there are interactive or side-by-side editors for most of them.
Notepad3 https://github.com/rizonesoft/Notepad3/releases
Markdown?
You should probably reconsider.
Have your butler do it for you
Too bad, only the poorest text for you.
*economically challenged text