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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Notepad++ is what I use. It’s great.
Notepad++ and WordPad serve different purposes. One is a plaintext editor and the other is a rich text editor.
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.
Sublime Text is where it’s at
I don't think that's the sole reason. I don't know anyone who uses WordPad. Like you said, for quick text edits people use Notepad or some other simple text editor and for anything more sophisticated than that people use a full office suite like LibreOffice or MS Office or pirated copies thereof.
It just doesn't make sense to maintain a third word processor software that nobody bothers to really use.
I used WordPad for certain text files, because it word-wraps differently from Notepad. Admittedly, that happens less than once a month. I will only slightly miss WordPad.
I use Wordpad on the reg because it handles formatting better for when I copy/paste it into other media. It opens up instantly and I don't have to pay for Microsoft Office.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
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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...well i guess draft messages in outlook can make-do in a pinch...
just use libreoffice