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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft has announced that it is deprecating the classic WordPad app that has shipped as part of Windows since Windows 95. The app hasn't been updated since Windows 8, but still ships in the latest ...