The word processor is a staple of the computer world. In response to writers needing to get work done, the late 1970s and early 1980s saw hundreds of word processors vying for market space. Microsoft ...

I have basically never used WordPad. Not because I didn't know about it, or anything, but because I never felt like there was enough of a gap between Notepad and Word for it to be useful for me. And ...

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 ...

Back in 1985, Microsoft was releasing Windows 1.0. This primitive version of its flagship product came with a basic word processor, known as Microsoft Write. One decade later, Windows 95 arrived and, ...

Back in the era of sub-GHz processors and RAM sticks which couldn't top 1GB, MS Word was slow to open. Click to expand... Actually, I think it was fast to start. Like a lot of other Microsoft software ...