Microsoft Is Getting Rid Of WordPad After 28 Years - The Veteran Editor Has Been Present In The OS Since Windows 95 - Gadget Tendency
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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

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

  • Kusimulkku@lemm.eeEnglish
    15·
    5 months ago

    WordPad was in that weird area between Notepad and Word (oh I get it, WordPad). I nevel felt like there was much use for it.

    • frezik@midwest.socialEnglish
      8·
      5 months ago

      In the 90s, there was no LibreOffice/OpenOffice, and Word was expensive. It did rich text WYSIWYG formatting for free. Was never great, but it was functional.

      Not much point to it anymore, though.

    • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
      71·
      5 months ago

      It was useful back in Windows 98 when Notepad wouldn’t open anything bigger than 64KB.

      That’s about the last time I used it.

    • V0lD@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      5 months ago

      For all intents and purposes it was free word

      I haven’t really used word in over half a decade since TeX beats it in every conceivable way.

      Wordpad was useful in the sparse few cases where I was forced to open a .doc or .docx and couldn’t be arsed to upload the file to Google docs

      I guess it will be missed for that