After a 30-year run, Microsoft has discontinued WordPad, leaving fans of this simple word processor upset. Fortunately, there ...

Microsoft has given WordPad the chop, or what amounts to the final pulling of the curtain on the venerable app in Windows 11, after the software giant announced that the application was deprecated ...

WordPad had to die because it was a simple program that did a single thing well with minimal overhead. Thankfully, now that it’s dead, Microsoft can redirect their resources to adding a 14th ...

Our go-to text editor, word processor is usually Microsoft Word. We’ve been using it for ages, are most comfortable with it despite its quirks, and don’t see why we need to use an alternative. But ...

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Microsoft is removing the WordPad app from newer builds of Windows 11 and it will not be reinstallable. However, the app is still available in the stable version of Windows 11 for now. WordPad app is ...

WINDOWS users are fuming after Microsoft delivered a crushing update on the future of a long-running app. The PC giant had already revealed that the app’s days are numbered but we now have a clearer ...

Those of you who still use WordPad in Windows will at some point have to find another program to open and read your favorite documents. In the latest edition of its list of deprecated Windows features ...

Genuine question, because this is alien to me: How does a text file become that large? I'm assuming: by having a lot of text. But the text files I've thought of as very big, have still just been in ...

Find out the two alternative apps Microsoft recommends you use instead WINDOWS users are fuming after Microsoft delivered a crushing update on the future of a long-running app. The PC giant had ...