In a nutshell: A recent discovery in an Insider Preview of Windows 10 has revealed that Microsoft is experimenting with ads in its WordPad app in a bid to encourage users to try out the web versions ...

Microsoft is testing promotions for the free Office web apps being displayed directly in the menu bar for the Windows 10 Wordpad application. As you can imagine, the reaction to this news has been ...

In yet another attempt to further monetize Windows 10, Microsoft is testing out advertisements in WordPad, the word processing app that's been built into the OS for decades. The change was spotted by ...

Wordpad, a standard Windows word processing software, can handle most document files and has all the functions, so many people would say, 'If you have this, you don't need Office Word.' It turns out ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...