5 Free Windows Apps That Outperform the Built-in Ones

You can record, edit, mix, and convert audio with a vast library of free effects and tools. Whether you’re cutting an ...
TweakTown

Microsoft is retiring WordPad, the free word processor that first debuted in Windows 95

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 ...
GeekWire

RIP, WordPad: Microsoft will remove this longtime word-processing app in a future Windows update

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 ...
TweakTown

Windows 11 24H2 sees Microsoft finally axe WordPad - but there's a way you can keep the app

Windows 11 no longer has WordPad, with Microsoft finally giving the venerable app the chop with the 24H2 update. This comes as no surprise, because Microsoft had already deprecated WordPad - that ...
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Microsoft just gave the Windows 11 Notepad app a controversial feature that people are either loving or hating

New formatting abilities have arrived in Notepad for Windows 11 Microsoft previously tested these features, but they're now rolling out to all Windows 11 users Some welcome the move as a useful ...
Ars Technica

Notepad’s spellcheck and autocorrect are rolling out to everybody after 41 years

In March, Microsoft started testing an update to the venerable Notepad app that added spellcheck and autocorrect to the app’s limited but slowly growing set of capabilities. The update that adds these ...