The WordPad program is a simple word processing program that is included with every copy of Windows. Even though Microsoft removed the ability to save a document in the .doc format using WordPad and ...

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 ...

Notepad, a text editor, performs relatively fewer functions than WordPad and MS Word. On the other hand, WordPad and Word are very close to each other but still distinct in many ways. This post will ...

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 announced on Friday that it will discontinue the WordPad program with a future update to the Windows operating system because it is no longer actively being developed. WordPad is considered ...

It’s always sad to say goodbye to old applications that we used to use over the decades. However, the march of progress must continue, even when some of our favorite programs get overstepped. After ...

Microsoft has announced that they are sunsetting Microsoft WordPad. WordPad is a rich-text editor that has been shipped out with every Windows release for free. It essentially was a lightweight ...

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 ...

Included with every version of Windows 7 is WordPad, a lightweight program that gives you the basic functionality of a word processor. By default, Windows 7 includes a shortcut to WordPad from within ...