2. WordPad. WordPad is unheard of, mostly. People would’ve noticed Notepad and Word, whereas WordPad is sort of halfway between the two. Firstly, it’s a word processor, not merely a text editor.

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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.

They are Notepad, Microsoft Paint, and and WordPad. None of the apps are set to disappear from Windows 10, but users will have the choice to not install them assuming they remain optional features ...

NotePad, Paint, and WordPad are all still installed by default. But they’re now listed under “Optional Features” in Windows 10 Settings, ...

Notepad was released in 1983, a full 12 years before WordPad. The initial version of the tool launched not for Windows but rather MS-DOS, Microsoft’s first operating system.

Tiny but full-featured, Metapad could become your default notepad application. Metapad wants to completely replace the built-in Windows notepad, and some of the features being offered in Metapad ...

Earlier this year, Microsoft killed WordPad—the free and surprisingly capable built-in word processor that debuted in Windows 95. For this, they must be punished. Yet while Microsoft taketh away ...

Analysis: WordPad down, Notepad on the up. In the past, Microsoft has made it clear that you won’t be able to somehow reinstall WordPad (and that the app won’t be present in new installations ...

“WordPad’s initial target audience was individual users who didn’t have access to MS Word but wanted something better than Notepad,” said Pareekh Jain, CEO at Pareekh Consulting.