Comment on Notepad’s spellcheck and autocorrect are rolling out to everybody after 41 years
seven_phone@lemmy.world 4 months agoReminds me what Microsoft once was, Word often would be bundled free at source with Windows because people need a word processor. Notepad was provided as a very light way to get down notes and edit, and then additionally Wordpad was a place between them. I have used Notepad more than any other application, you could even use it as a cheap and cheerful hex editor. Now Word is a subscription, Wordpad is being removed from Windows - even that sentence looks wrong, and Notepad is to be bloated into redundancy. I have no idea why Microsoft is squandering it’s legacy, we grew up with these things.
Peffse@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I can’t recall a single computer I sold or had anyone buy having Word bundled with the computer, but Microsoft Works Word Processor was bundled everywhere, before they started doing the Office trial junk. I always ended up using WordPad in rtf format anyway because all the file format differences made moving docs so hard.
And yeah, ads in calc.exe, the death of WordPad, the bloating of Notepad… all pretty normal stuff now. There must be a mandate from the higher ups that anything untouched for x amount of days has to be removed or monetized.
subignition@fedia.io 4 months ago
... ads in calc.exe? what the actual fuck
Peffse@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yup, back when it transitioned to UWP. I don’t know if they removed them because I immediately extracted the old version from a previous Windows and have been towing along that import baggage every setup since.
subignition@fedia.io 4 months ago
I already migrated the Win7 calc.exe because I don't like how poorly the Win10 one handles keyboard input, thanks for letting me know I need to make sure to save it for when Win11 becomes inevitable, too.
seven_phone@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Maybe it’s local, I am in the UK and every computer I bought with Windows installed up until about 8 years ago came with standalone Word bundled. Works was there too but unused.