Why Microsoft Discontinued WordPad After 30 Years

Microsoft has discontinued WordPad with no official explanation, though signs point to security concerns. Fortunately, there ...
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Microsoft Retires This Program After 28 Years

After nearly three decades, Microsoft is officially retiring WordPad, one of its oldest and most recognizable programs. The simple text editor, which first appeared in Windows 95, will be completely ...
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Think Notepad is Bloatpad now? Microsoft's new lightweight text editor is coming to Windows 11

TL;DR: Microsoft is ushering in a lightweight text editor for Windows 11 called Edit, which it says pays homage to the classic MS-DOS Editor experience, but with a suitably modern interface. It's ...
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40 Years Later, Microsoft Finally Adds Spell Check To Notepad

Microsoft’s free and simple text editor, Notepad, is finally getting a feature that many users have requested for years: Spell check. Finally, when you copy and paste random URLs or passwords into ...