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Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 1 year ago by dantheclamman@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] BananaTrifleViolin@kbin.social 87 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I get where you're coming from but I think you're overstating the impact in this day and age. If this had been 1995 it'd be a big deal. Now it's rediculously easy to install any alternative you like for free.

Libre Office is an entire free fully features office suite.

I'm less bothered about removing WordPad than I am about Microsoft advertising and pre-installing it's products in Windows - they force Edge on people, they push OneDrive and preinstall a preview of Office. That's the real problem - not losing WordPad.

At one point Anti-Trust / Anti-monopoly regulators globally punished Microsoft for pushing Internet Explorer to consumers and for a long time in Europe had to offer a choice of Browsers to download on new Windows installs. Now it's allowed to get away with abusing it's dominant position to force it's products on consumers.

[–] Sargteapot@lemmy.nz -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Or you know, google docs is a thing which is free and imo works better than word

[–] Kbin_space_program@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Google docs is still trash though.

[–] MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

A web browser is not a word processor no matter how much they tart it up. If the thing isn’t saving a file to my local drive that is in a common format It’s not worth putting your effort into.

So many kids are going to grow up not having the concept where data lives and what the failure modes are.