Save money on an offline word processor with LibreOffice, and it doesn't have Microsoft Copilot either. It took some convincing, but earlier this year, I finally ended a years-long relationship with ...

Windows offers “WordPad” as the default rich editor. It works, but then it’s limited. I am sure there are many processors available, but what makes Jarte interesting is that it is based on the same ...

Q: I just got a new laptop that doesn’t include Microsoft Word — what are my options? A: When you go to open a Word document on a new laptop, you’re likely to be presented with a prompt for Microsoft ...

Microsoft’s titan of a word processor is used almost everywhere by almost everyone, but what if you don’t want to spend seven bucks a month? Here are our favorite alternatives to Word. They’re all ...

Microsoft has announced that its long-running WordPad app will no longer be updated, and it will be removed in a future release of Windows. WordPad, which first debuted almost three decades ago as a ...

It is a simple, distraction-free word processor that supports Rich Text and smart quotes. The application has been designed solely for text, but accommodates a toolbar, hidden from the general view to ...

September 30, 2010 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Windows/Mac/Linux: FocusWriter is a lightweight, portable, and feature rich word processor with an emphasis ...

It’s a $19 “piece of junk,” but a portable word processor could keep you focused on your writing and nothing else. Design for Hackers author David Kadavy explains several of the benefits of using a ...

A few months back, when Microsoft first released Word for iPad, there were wildly varying responses, from, “Who cares and who uses Word any more?” to “I’ve been waiting forever for this!” to “Wait, ...

C.K. told me about Writely a while back, and even when DownloadSquad blogged it in September it was available as an invite-only beta. Worse yet, it didn't (and still doesn't) like Safari. None of that ...