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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Notepad is getting lightweight formatting support on Windows 11. It brings Markdown-style input with support for headers, lists, and hyperlinks.

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 ...

Why all this wasn’t worth adding to WordPad? I’ll never know… unless it’s just Microsoft trying to give people yet another nudge to pay for Office, which would be in character. Notepad is ...

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

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 ...

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.