CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

After a 30-year run, Microsoft has discontinued WordPad, leaving fans of this simple word processor upset. Fortunately, there ...

WordPad, a Windows rich editing app that has been a mainstay of the platform since Windows 95, is on its way out. Microsoft has marked it for deprecation, a death knell that signals that it will be ...

Microsoft is saying goodbye to WordPad, its long-supported rich text application, which will no longer receive updates as of September 1. The brand recently announced that the app is now among its ...

Editor's take: Back in the DOS days, real PC users wrote their textual tomes in the official MS-DOS Editor – I certainly did. These days, developers offer a confusing array of text editors, so ...

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 ...

Sometimes all you need is a simple solution. When it comes to text editing, that used to be Notepad—simple, quick, and reliable. However, Microsoft's latest simple text editor, Edit, beats Notepad at ...

If you want to check duplicate text online using Word, it is possible to get the job done without using any third-party add-in now. You do not need to spend money on a duplicate text finder since Word ...

In March, Microsoft announced Microsoft Editor to help users with grammar and spellings in Office apps and on the web. Soon after the initial announcement, the company made the extension available for ...

Notepad, a text editor, performs relatively fewer functions than WordPad and MS Word. On the other hand, WordPad and Word are very close to each other but still distinct in many ways. This post will ...

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 ...

Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Word will highlight grayed-out predictions when users are writing a ...