When Microsoft started adding features like a more modern UI, tab support, and autosave to Notepad, I saw all of those changes as positive, though I know some purists were already upset with it.

Microsoft has added bold, italics, lists, hyperlinks, and even Markdown to the Windows Notepad app, making it look more and ...

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Notepad now lets you use markdown text formatting on Windows 11, which means you can write in Notepad just like you could in ...

They have now made apps like Notepad, Wordpad, and Paint Optional features on Windows. This means they can be uninstalled and reinstalled as and when you wish. Not only this, ...

Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is no longer updating WordPad and plans to remove the ...

Unlike Notepad, WordPad supports graphics and offers formatting features to the user. However, WordPad does not offer all kinds of text formatting features as available in MS word.

Notepad is a very basic text editor with very few additional features beyond typing and saving. WordPad is slightly more sophisticated and is a stripped-down word processing program that offers a ...

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It’s not hard see why Wordpad was picked to head to the chopping block, however: while Microsoft has released new features for Notepad, Wordpad has been largely ignored.

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.