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Comment on Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years

Not everyone has the money for a copy of Word. There once was a time when free rich text editors were valuable. But at this point I agree it isn’t needed anymore. There are plenty of FOSS alternatives to word that hit that market. Microsoft has probably kept it around this long to prevent people from looking, but now they’ve put their bet on cloud services.

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TheEntity@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

There are plenty of FOSS alternatives to word that hit that market.

Plenty? I know one and its fork. That's about one and a half.

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- sebinspace@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  ScintillaTE is an old-ass one. Most people have never heard of it, and those that have have only heard of its variant, UniSciTE, which came bundled as the default text editor for Unity, something like 15 years ago.
  
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- thehatfox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I think AbiWord is still around, which used to be the FOSS simple, WordPad-like word processor of choice.
  
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- IHeartBadCode@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I didn’t know Joeoffice had a fork. What’s it called?
  
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  - TheEntity@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Knowing the Internet, it would be Joemom, I presume? :)
    
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AmbientChaos@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
microsoft.com/…/free-office-online-for-the-web

Word is available for free now

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