Comment on Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years
dantheclamman@lemmy.world 1 year agoHonestly I’m not too bummed, especially with open-source solutions like Notepad++, but it’s the end of an era! Also, Word is paid, and so Windows not having a built in free RTF editor is notable
yukichigai@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Yeah, that is a bit odd, but then again when’s the last time you’ve seen something other than a cut-rate eBook in RTF? Everything is either some variant of plain text or a DOC file these days.
Plus, it’s rare that you ever need to edit RTF files. Read, sure, but that could be handled by Word Reader, which is free.
T156@lemmy.world 1 year ago
A lot of ebooks seem to be more epub or pdf these days. RTF isn’t used quite so much.
yukichigai@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
RTF is a rarity these days since basically every phone, tablet, and other handheld device can handle either PDFs or HTML (and ePub is basically just a ZIP file with HTML in a specific naming scheme and structure). Back in the day though you’d find RTFs more often for use in budget/jury-rigged eReader options. It’s much easier to parse, if nothing else.