For years, WordPad accompanied people who could not afford a more advanced (read: paid) text editor. The program first appeared in the Windows 95 operating system and now we know that the official ...

Microsoft deprecated a lot of Windows features in 2023. One of them was WordPad, the default rich text editor introduced years ago. Most of the time, Microsoft allows users to continue using ...

In a decision that tugs at the heartstrings of long-time Windows users, Microsoft has officially declared the retirement of the iconic WordPad application, a program that has been a faithful companion ...

The word processor is a staple of the computer world. In response to writers needing to get work done, the late 1970s and early 1980s saw hundreds of word processors vying for market space. Microsoft ...

The Windows 11 2024 Update, otherwise known as version 24H2, started rolling out yesterday, but if you’ve already updated, you might notice something is missing. WordPad’s deprecation has become a ...

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 ...

Windows 11 users are expressing their anger and disappointment over Microsoft's decision to discontinue the WordPad app. Users have been reaching out to the company via the Feedback hub, arguing for ...

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 ...