Pour one out for the poor WordPad. Microsoft killed its free rich text editor in late 2023 in an effort to switch users to its premium Office apps or their free web-based versions. While WordPad ...

Microsoft finally gives its iconic WordPad app the chop as a new Windows 11 Canary build reveals that the long-time word processing app’s time is up. The Canary channel is one of four release ...

Notepad has been the default text editor for the Windows operating system for as long as three decades. The app lets you view, edit, and search plain text documents and source code files instantly.

In a world where apps and services seem to be getting more and more complicated, this week’s note-taking tool is the polar ...

Starting with build 26020, WordPad is no longer bundled with the operating system. More importantly, Microsoft said the app "will not be reinstallable." Starting with this build, the WordPad and ...

If you're missing some of those features in Windows that Microsoft dropped, you might be able to find a replacement.