We probably should have known something was up when they didn’t give WordPad a dark mode. Just before the long holiday weekend, Microsoft added WordPad to its list of “Deprecated Features” for Windows ...

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 a move signaling the end of an era, Microsoft has revealed plans to retire the beloved word processor, WordPad, a fundamental feature in its Windows operating system for almost 30 years. This ...

Introduced in Windows 7, the WordPad ribbon gives people the ability to edit documents in a user interface that resembles one in Microsoft Word. While Word and WordPad are compatible in several ways, ...

In a nutshell: Microsoft has made it abundantly clear that WordPad is slated for retirement. A newly published document outlines a specific timeline for the discontinuation of the longstanding ...

Thankfully, there are now ample free options, though, this being Microsoft, I can't help but see this as yet another move to try to force someone to use Office. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if ...

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 ...