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 ...

Three applications that have been part of Windows for decades may soon become optional features… meaning you’ll be able to remove them if you don’t use them. The latest Windows 10 Insider Preview ...

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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

WordPad is officially a thing of the past, now. Microsoft will not be updating WordPad anymore and will be removing it via a future Windows release. Instead, Redmond’s tech giant is recommending its ...

Windows: Most office suites and word processors have spell-check built in, but if you're working in a tool like Notepad, Wordpad, a web browser, or another tool that won't automatically check your ...

Analyst calls this IT pilot fish with a service request: He wants some “programming” and an explanation of “how an email is made.” “The request included the run from the previous night,” says fish. “I ...

Tiny but full-featured, Metapad could become your default notepad application. Metapad wants to completely replace the built-in Windows notepad, and some of the features being offered in Metapad could ...

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, ...