Microsoft is killing WordPad, its long-running free alternative to Microsoft Word. The company announced on Friday that it will no longer update existing WordPad software and won’t be available on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Microsoft has now released the shipping version of the Windows 11 2024 Update (24H2), the year’s major feature update for Windows 11. But there’s a price to pay: when Microsoft begins installing ...

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 ...

This software gem from the Macintosh world now crosses over to the Wintel scene, and the best reply to that news is “bravo.” Spell Catcher adds full-strength spell-checking, dictionary and thesaurus ...