Nearly thirty years ago, Microsoft unveiled WordPad, a basic text editing software that later often came pre-installed on Windows machines, but now it’s going the way of Windows Movie Maker and ...

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 ...

WordPad died for this? Microsoft is shoveling yet more features into the venerable Windows Notepad. This time it's support ...

Microsoft is preparing to bring a new command-line text editor called Edit to Windows 11, which is made for users who want a simple and lightweight tool for editing text files. Edit is now available ...

It's hard to talk about the 'good old days' of Windows without sounding like an irate granddad yelling at kids on their lawn, so I'm just going to lean into it. Back in my day, Notepad was a very ...

A new update for Notepad's Copilot integration will add support for "streaming," which means you can watch text type itself.

Microsoft is killing off WordPad, its decades-old text editor in Windows. The company will no longer update the software. It will then remove it from a future version of Windows. WordPad has been ...

Whatever else you can say about Windows 11—and whatever you think about its pushy tendencies and the Copilot feature that has been rolled out to pretty much everyone despite being labeled a ...

When MS-DOS 5.0 was launched in 1991, one of its major innovations was the MS-DOS Editor, a classic text editor that quickly became popular with users. These days, it’s old news—yet fondly remembered.

Writer's block is no match for Microsoft's latest AI infusion for its Notepad app. The long-neglected Notepad now has the ability to write custom content based on any prompt you feed it, so long as ...

You can now double-check your emails for typos and grammatical errors with Microsoft Editor in Outlook. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...