Microsoft is getting rid of WordPad after 28 years – the veteran editor has been present in the OS since Windows 95::Microsoft has begun getting rid of another veteran application in its proprietary operating system. The company has released a new test build of Windows 11

  • Grass@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    I just use libreoffice or vim for general text stuff I haven’t used WordPad in 28 years. Was it ever able to edit Ms word documents? I feel like there was a reason I didn’t use it.

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      5 months ago

      Believe it dealt in rich text format rtf by default, think it was too limited for docx but I’m open to being corrected