In case you missed it, Microsoft resurrected the old XML Notepad last year. The new version, XML Notepad 2007, is a .NET 2.0 application for which source code is available on CodePlex. I find it the ...

Good news cheap people! Windows 7’s WordPad (Microsoft’s free bundled word processing doc) now supports Office 2007/2008’s XML-based Word docs. The upside is that if you’re just typing up really ...

WordPad has been a vector for malware in the past, so if they include it they have to keep up with security fixes. The title mentions Word, but it affected WordPad too. I remember back when you could ...

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 ...