Microsoft has announced that its long-running WordPad app will no longer be updated, and it will be removed in a future release of Windows. WordPad, which first debuted almost three decades ago as a ...

Writer online word processor, with a look mimicking DOS-based text editors running on a green-phosphor display, makes it easy to create and return to a text file, with no sign-in. Dennis O'Reilly ...

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 ...

In a nutshell: This week has been a special one for Microsoft Word as the venerable software reached its 40th birthday. To celebrate, Microsoft is looking back at the word processor's history and what ...