Microsoft Corp. plans to phase out WordPad, the free word processor that has shipped with Windows for the past 28 years. The company disclosed the move in a support note released on Friday. “WordPad ...

Q: I have two Dell All-in-One PCs. The newer one is running Windows 10 and the older is running Windows 7 (used mostly for games and letters). First, WordPad on the Windows 10 computer does not have ...

After almost 30 years, Microsoft Corp. MSFT has announced the discontinuation of WordPad, its basic word processor. According to a report by The Verge on Saturday, the tech behemoth will cease ...

Microsoft is finally retiring WordPad, the venerable text editor that has been a staple in Windows operating systems since Windows 95. This decision comes as part of Microsoft’s ongoing efforts to ...

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 ...

Technology giant Microsoft has discontinued WordPad, which had been part of every Windows operating system for the last 28 years. “Starting with this build, the WordPad and People apps will no longer ...

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 ...

Software King of the World Microsoft has revealed that WordPad, the basic word processor that's been included with Windows since 1995, is being retired. On a Microsoft blog it states that WordPad is ...

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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, ...

Depending on the nature of your small business, you may rely on an assortment of programs to open and display the various types of files that you work with on a daily basis. WordPad is a default ...

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 ...