Saying Goodbye to WordPad: Windows' Staple for 28 Years Gets the Chop

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• AuthorityClassError@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ah, MS constantly trying their very best to force everyone into their shitty cloud service. No thanks, I’d rather use Libreoffice and for quick jots, notepad. Hell, I’d rather even use the old MS-Dos EDIT than touch any office product.

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  • teft@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Notepad++ is what I use. It’s great.

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    • Jestzer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Notepad++ and WordPad serve different purposes. One is a plaintext editor and the other is a rich text editor.

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    • AuthorityClassError@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      While I love me some ++, I find that notepad just loads faster for me. Although I will say that for scrap code snippets for projects, it’s pretty damn good.

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  • ebits21@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Vim

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• MrRazamataz@lemmy.razbot.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  We’ve already had this posted here.

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• myrrh@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  …well i guess draft messages in outlook can make-do in a pinch…

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• ciko22i3@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  just use libreoffice

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• autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is the best summary I could come up with:

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  WordPad, the stalwart middle-ground text editing app that has been a Windows staple for 28 years, has been deprecated by Microsoft.

  In a bulletin about deprecated features, published Friday, Microsoft says that WordPad will no longer receive updates and will be unavailable in future versions of Windows.

  For short documents with styled text, multiple fonts, picture inserts, and a sprinkling of other basic features, WordPad could handle it.

  However, Microsoft limited the WordPad app’s crafting of .doc and .rtf files just enough to inspire users to upgrade to its paid-for Office Word software.

  However, most apps target either plain text or fully-featured word processing, and the middle ground covered by WordPad is comparatively neglected.

  When Microsoft announced it would deprecate Windows Paint with an OS update in mid-2017, it quickly became aware of a groundswell of popular support for the app.

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