In September 2023, Microsoft announced the surprising end of their free text editing program. For many, WordPad was a simple but useful alternative to Microsoft Word — but it’s no longer part of ...

Pour one out for the poor WordPad. Microsoft killed its free rich text editor in late 2023 in an effort to switch users to its premium Office apps or their free web-based versions. While WordPad is ...

Microsoft has announced that its long-running WordPad app will no longer be updated, and it will be removed in a future release of Windows. WordPad, which first debuted almost three decades ago as a ...

Microsoft is killing WordPad, its long-running free alternative to Microsoft Word. The company announced on Friday that it will no longer update existing WordPad software and won’t be available on ...

Windows sets Notepad as the default program for opening text files. Although you can use Notepad to create basic documents that don't require formatting, Wordpad lets you add images, customized text, ...

For many Microsoft Word is the text editing app they default to but Word isn’t free and costs R1 099 per year for one person, it’s a hard sell to most. That has been okay since Microsoft has a text ...

Microsoft is killing off WordPad, its decades-old text editor in Windows. The company will no longer update the software. It will then remove it from a future version of Windows. WordPad has been ...

Whatever its other flaws, Windows 11 has given the operating system’s built-in app suite its biggest overhaul in many years. For apps like Calculator, the changes have been merely cosmetic, but ...

WordPad, a Windows rich editing app that has been a mainstay of the platform since Windows 95, is on its way out. Microsoft has marked it for deprecation, a death knell that signals that it will be ...

Columns in wordprocessing documents are essential for organizing certain types of text-based content, such as balance sheets and ASCII databases. However, WordPad can't make the fancy tables that ...