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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I used to use WordPad a lot, I'd just press Win+R and enter "write"...
Now I get by with Libreoffice.
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.
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.
You can add it back to the library from an older edition, and it will run fine if you want it badly enough.
"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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No wtf microsoft!!
At least there's Notepad++. An absolute end of an era.
Wordpad is the rich text editor, it's not notepad
Notepad ++ is better anyway? Non story?
Do you even know what WordPad is?
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
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 to have an ulterior motive.
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