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Comment on Microsoft retires WordPad after 28 years — app no longer available as of Windows 11 24H2

here’s a little known fact about WordPad: It was Microsoft’s first word processing program. Originally introduced as an add-on to MS-DOS in 1981, WordPad later became a part of Windows in the 1990s after the release of Windows 95. It was designed to be simpler and more user-friendly than its more advanced counterpart, Microsoft Word.

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dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
WordPad didn’t exist until Windows 95. You might be thinking of Microsoft Write, which predated it.

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- ADTJ@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  In Windows 95, wordpad was still write.exe, is it possible they just renamed it?
  
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  - dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Definitely possible, but I think WordPad in Windows 95 was written from scratch.
    
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