Comment on Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years

MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  LibreOffice is what those people need.

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  • Classy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I personally like the look and feel of FreeOffice better. Fairly enough, I haven’t used Libre in many years, but it always felt kind of clunky and when I tried Free it was very comfortable and familiar to use, as a lifetime Word-er.

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  • Fishshake@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    LibreOffice is where it’s at, for sure.

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• ebits21@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I actually very much doubt wordpad has hurt office sales.

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  • uberkalden@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Seriously. It’s insane to think this is a move to increase office market share

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• Microw@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I dont think I know any person who uses Wordpad. Most probably dont even know that it exists, hidden away somewhere in the starting menu…

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• Banzai51@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  People still sleep on Excel. Nothing else touches it, and your finance department would riot if IT tried any of its “replacements.”

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• Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If you think WordPad is a replacement for Ms word then the reality is that you don’t do anything that requires word/write.

  And I am assuming you just mean word and not excel or PowerPoint because… Yeah

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• Stamets@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I am one of those users. I use wordpad for prepping my DnD games. MS Office is beyond bloated and slows my pc to a crawl when it’s open. Same with Open Office and LibreOffice if I’m honest. Both hog too many resources.

  Guess I’m moving over to Obsidian full time.

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  • ebits21@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sounds like you need a new pc…

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    • Stamets@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      True but I also need food more.

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  • fulano@lemmy.eco.br ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Have you ever tried abiword? It’s really lightweight.

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    • Stamets@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I have not. Haven’t even heard of it. But I will be looking into it. Thank you!

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• Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Wordpad has been obsolete since you could open files bigger than 64KB in Notepad. It’s useful for almost nothing.

  It’s not like your can’t just install LibreOffice or use Google Docs and be done with it.

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• AustralianSimon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They changed their licensing and specifically for robot users so I suspect it’s to funnel those users into licenses.

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