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Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨dantheclamman@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-is-killing-wordpad-in-windows-after-28-years/

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  • nutsack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    thanks for nothing, hitler

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  • Resol@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I guess it’s time to go back to Microsoft Works

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    • Morcyphr@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Wow, I had forgotten. Let’s not actually.

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    • recapitated@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Time to go back to WordPerfect

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    • uberkalden@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Why did that thing exist at the same time as word anyways. I remember being so frustrated I couldn’t open word docs in works

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      • BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Because it was a fraction of the price of word/office?

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  • Brkdncr@artemis.camp ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I get it. MS has a “free” rich text editor, it’s Word online. You can easily install any other simple rich text editor (is abiword still a thing?) on Windows. Wordpad probably has minimal usage.

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    • ares35@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      abiword's basically a dead project for windows and macos. the linux version i think saw an update a couple years ago.. but i can't get to the site (abisource.com) now at all to check.

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  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I used to use WordPad a lot, I’d just press Win+R and enter “write”…

    Now I get by with Libreoffice.

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  • hellfire103@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Linux, BSD, and macOS users:

    Oh No! Anyway.

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    • klyde@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Linux fanboys can’t help but tell you they’re Linux fanboys.

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      • Uniquitous@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I guess the only thing more embarrassing would be being a Windows fanboy.

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      • Kalkaline@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’m starting to think they may have a point.

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    • Alexstarfire@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This is my reaction even as a Windows user. In my experience, notepad is used when you just need to read what’s in the file and formatting and such doesn’t really matter, or you explicitly want as little processing of the data as possible. Like opening files that really aren’t text based files.

      And then if you actually want formatting, images, fonts, etc to make something look good you get an actual document editor: Word, Libre Office, etc.

      The only thing I see WordPad providing is it’s pre-installed and does have more functionality than notepad. I have used WordPad a couple of times when I’ve been on a new computer that doesn’t yet have everything installed and I don’t want to take the time to install an actual editor for whatever I’m doing. It’s pretty damn rare though.

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  • HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “No one’s paying for Microsoft Word, that thing that used to be free so… We gotta kill this so people too fucking stupid to use Libre Office get on board.”

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    • andysteakfries@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Web-based Word is free.

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      • HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Wh… No it isn’t.

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    • uberkalden@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Lol, you think MS is doing this to cash in on the huge Wordpad market?

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      • HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        They’re doing it because why support the free word processor when they could just support the non-free one?

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  • elshanerino@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    eh, there’s plenty of tools out there like notepad++, atom, obsidian, etc.

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    • Molecular0079@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Wordpad is WYSIWIG, the alternatives you mentioned are more for replacing Notepad.

      But yeah, why use WordPad when LibreOffice exists?

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      • DadVolante@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        WordPad is wonderful for opening notepad documents written by molders who don’t understand how to make paragraphs

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    • Aux@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And none of them are doing what WordPad is doing.

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    • Squids@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Or if you’re using for purely notes, OneNote is like, right there. In your system tray. For free.

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  • gataloca@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    A good alternative is abiword. Don’t know if it exists on Windows tho.

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    • draxil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      it does

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  • Gestrid@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I honestly didn’t even know it was still around. The last time I opened it was… Windows 7, I think?

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  • gnuplusmatt@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    how will I read the instructions a vendor sent me for a windows server that is a word doc because who knows? Oh no… Anyway

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  • snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You can add it back to the library from an older edition, and it will run fine if you want it badly enough.

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  • Declamatie@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Another advertisement for Linux…

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  • EmperorHenry@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    open office? Libre office? We have options

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    • glitch1985@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Notepad ftw!

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      • EmperorHenry@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        notepad doesn’t have spellcheck and if you don’t use a third party firewall to block its network activity it will transmit information about what you put on it to microsoft and the advertising companies its partnered with.

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  • stonedemoman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I can see truth to either position presented in these comments, but I don’t like being a fence sitter. That being said, I would think making it available but not mandatory would satisfy both opinions, right? Making it unavailable altogether is a move that seems like it has an ulterior motive.

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    • Vigge93@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not trying to defend Microsoft, but making it available to the fraction of a fraction that would actually download it is probably not worth it because you still would have to maintain it, making sure it’s compatible with new windows versions and providing security updates.

      It’s a lot easier to just kill it outright, and those that do actually really really want it can find some third party who has uploaded a version of the exe file somewhere.

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      • stonedemoman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I agree with the first half of your statement completely, but as for killing it outright I would think turning it over to FOSS developers would be a less incendiary solution. As many people are saying, it hardly competes with other software that is already available.

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      • Aatube@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Isn't backwards-compatibility Microsoft's thing? You can still run an app in XP mode if my memory serves.

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    • Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I wouldn’t be upset if they just put it on the Windows store.

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  • Forcedlurker@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Unpopular opinion, I never used WordPress.

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    • sndmn@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Irrelevant opinion too.

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  • ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “Looks like you’ll have to pay for Word instead”

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    • 30mag@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I got a copy of WordPerfect around here somewhere.

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    • ripcord@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Or LibreOffice or Only office or....

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  • Jaysyn@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Quill is free.

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    • exohuman@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Wow, that looks simple and nice.

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  • ameliawilliams@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Not a huge problem for me: (1) Never really used wordpad. (2) Used WordPerfect from 1999-2003 (3) Used Open Office and Libre Office since 2003 (4) I use Linux now

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  • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I use textpad for helping with coding and note keeping. No goddamn text formatting, just plain ascii with windows or unix line endings. Quick and easy macros, etc.

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  • Zoldyck@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oh for fucks sake

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  • cake@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Off to the retirement home

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  • 1984@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I was using WordPad a few times when I was a teenager on windows 95. :) Nostalgic to hear that name again.

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