Following the deprecation of WordPad, Microsoft has been adding a lot of features to Notepad, which has led to criticism from ...

The workaround here is pretty simple, thanks to Microsoft. They have now made apps like Notepad, Wordpad, and Paint Optional features on Windows. This means they can be uninstalled and reinstalled ...

Hate Notepad in Windows 11 because Microsoft keeps adding features to the app, bloating it up? You might like the new 'Edit' ...

Let's see if it pays off for them Microsoft is updating Notepad again. The latest indignity for the veteran Windows text ...

but you’d need access to an older version of Windows where WordPad still existed.) Traditionally, Notepad has been the Windows answer to a light text editor that coders can use or write in ...

Windows Insiders can now access a formatting toolbar in Notepad to apply text styling. This feature is currently available in ...

Notepad is getting light text formatting abilities in testing, in yet another move to extend the feature set of the app which ...

Notepad is a very basic text editor with very few additional features beyond typing and saving. WordPad is slightly more sophisticated and is a stripped-down word processing program that offers a ...

Furthermore, fresh installs of Windows 11 won't come with WordPad either. That leaves Notepad in place as your remaining stock app as a text editor, and Word for proper word processing ...

And to that, I say: No way, Microsoft. No way. Meanwhile, WordPad, a free word processor that lives between Notepad and Word, is not long for this world. In a future update for Windows 11 ...

About a year ago, Microsoft announced that it was retiring Notepad's word processing counterpart, WordPad. Like Notepad, this program has been present on Windows computers for at least 30 years.

The Notepad improvements come as Microsoft prepares to stop shipping WordPad with Windows 11. WordPad was previously Windows' preinstalled basic word processor, but it has seen few (if any ...