In a nutshell: A recent discovery in an Insider Preview of Windows 10 has revealed that Microsoft is experimenting with ads in its WordPad app in a bid to encourage users to try out the web versions ...

Microsoft is testing promotions for the free Office web apps being displayed directly in the menu bar for the Windows 10 Wordpad application. As you can imagine, the reaction to this news has been ...

Wordpad, a standard Windows word processing software, can handle most document files and has all the functions, so many people would say, 'If you have this, you don't need Office Word.' It turns out ...

We probably should have known something was up when they didn’t give WordPad a dark mode. Just before the long holiday weekend, Microsoft added WordPad to its list of “Deprecated Features” for Windows ...

As exactly no one has requested, Microsoft is testing out a new feature for its built-in WordPad application that will give you advertisements for the company's free Office web apps. In yet another ...

Thankfully, there are now ample free options, though, this being Microsoft, I can't help but see this as yet another move to try to force someone to use Office. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if ...

For many Microsoft Word is the text editing app they default to but Word isn’t free and costs R1 099 per year for one person, it’s a hard sell to most. That has been okay since Microsoft has a text ...

Before you buy Microsoft Office site licenses for every computer in your company, consider whether some employees' needs can be met with WordPad, which comes loaded with the operating system. WordPad ...