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 ...

Microsoft has quietly revealed plans to stop updating its longstanding WordPad app and remove it from Windows entirely, though it's not yet clear when or how that might happen. This is a big deal ...

WordPad has been a vector for malware in the past, so if they include it they have to keep up with security fixes. The title mentions Word, but it affected WordPad too. I remember back when you could ...

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 ...

I have basically never used WordPad. Not because I didn't know about it, or anything, but because I never felt like there was enough of a gap between Notepad and Word for it to be useful for me. And ...