In 2024, Microsoft officially removed WordPad from Windows 11, in a blow to longtime users of the app. WordPad was a useful tool for many, offering a middle-ground between the simplicity of Notepad ...

Windows 11 no longer has WordPad, with Microsoft finally giving the venerable app the chop with the 24H2 update. This comes as no surprise, because Microsoft had already deprecated WordPad - that ...

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, ...

Notepad is a very basic text editor with very few additional features beyond typing and saving. WordPad is slightly more sophisticated and is a stripped-down word processing program that offers a ...

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 ...

Three of the apps we've all come to expect (and rely on?) as part of a fresh installation of Windows look set to switch to being optional in future versions of Windows 10. As Windows Latest reports, ...

Bad spellers rejoice, Microsoft has finally added a spellcheck function to Notepad, and it only took 41 years. In a year that has seen ChatGPT and other super intelligent AI systems thrust into the ...

New formatting abilities have arrived in Notepad for Windows 11 Microsoft previously tested these features, but they're now rolling out to all Windows 11 users Some welcome the move as a useful ...