🆚 Microsoft Word vs. Notepad++
- 📈 Microsoft Word is much more popular than Notepad++.
- 🌍 Microsoft Word is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ Notepad++ is particularly popular in Germany.
Microsoft WordType
About
Microsoft Word is a word processing program developed by Microsoft and included in the 
Microsoft Office and Microsoft 365 suites for creating, editing, and formatting text documents.
It provides rich text editing with advanced formatting, templates and styles, spell check and grammar assistance, tables and graphics insertion, document layout controls, and collaboration features such as real-time co-authoring and comments.
Notepad++ is a free source code editor for 
Windows that supports about 90 programming languages with syntax highlighting and code folding.
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Popularity
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Market share
Popularity by country
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Awards
- 🥉 Third most popular in Italy in the HTML Editors category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the United States in the HTML Editors category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Germany in the HTML Editors category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the United Kingdom in the HTML Editors category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the Netherlands in the HTML Editors category.
Popularity by domain category
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Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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BBEdit🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.