The company has since evolved its suite of software tools to create Microsoft Office, and now offers a subscription service known as Microsoft 365 . But starting with the release of Windows 95 in the mid 90s, Microsoft understood the need to include a free word processor that catered to the more casual user. This is where WordPad came into the picture. Sitting between the plain text editor that is Windows Notepad and the more advanced Microsoft Word, WordPad was a simplified word processor that...

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