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 ...

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 ...

What if your word processor could not only understand your needs but also anticipate them? With the 2025 update to Microsoft Word, that vision is closer to reality than ever. Packed with innovative ...

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 ...

By adding formatting, toolbars, and especially mandatory sign-ins for AI functionality, Microsoft is turning the app into a ...

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 ...

Next to Windows, Word might just be Microsoft’s most iconic software throughout PC history. Who hasn’t used Word at least once in their life? And how many of us have to use it every week — maybe even ...

Microsoft is known for regularly delivering new features for Window 11 via updates. However, the company is also known for ruthlessly removing features it deems inadequate. If you’re missing a program ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Adobe Systems Inc plans to acquire Virtual Ubiquity, makers of Buzzword, an innovative word processor, in a surprise move that competes with Microsoft Corp and Google Inc .

Thankfully, there are now ample free options, though, this being Microsoft, I can't help but see this as yet another move to try to force someone to use Office. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if ...