They should preinstall libre office as a replacement.
Comment on Microsoft retires WordPad after 28 years — app no longer available as of Windows 11 24H2
stoly@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Wordpad, as I recall, only existed because back in the Windows 95 days nobody had Office and couldn’t open Word documents.
yonder@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
FiskFisk33@startrek.website 1 month ago
people still don’t, right? I cant imagine it’s very common outside of company computers
stoly@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Anyone who works for or studies at any organization has it.
dan@upvote.au 1 month ago
WordPad in Windows 95 was a demonstration of how to use the Windows rich-text editing component. Its C++ source code came bundled with MFC (Microsoft Foundation Classes) as a sample.