It’s always sad to say goodbye to old applications that we used to use over the decades. However, the march of progress must continue, even when some of our favorite programs get overstepped. After ...

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 ...

WordPad had to die because it was a simple program that did a single thing well with minimal overhead. Thankfully, now that it’s dead, Microsoft can redirect their resources to adding a 14th ...

Windows Latest has learned that Microsoft is adding image support to Notepad on Windows 11, and sources told us that the ...

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 could ...

After more than four decades, Windows Notepad is getting a significant update. First released in 1983 in MS-DOS, the simple text editor predates Windows itself and has been available in every version ...