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Windows will no longer have an integrated basic rich-text-based word app.

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[–] [email protected] 146 points 4 weeks ago (10 children)

Wordpad always seemed like an annoying and unnecessary half-step between notepad and word to me.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I liked having the minimal formatting options in WordPad without the bloat of Word.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Wordpad is also able to open large text files without having a stroke. RIP

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

This is my most common use. It is grrat for opening large log files on servers.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 weeks ago

I read that like you’re Tony the Tiger. “It is GRRRRRREAT for opening large log files.”

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

The holy spirit help you with your servers that run on windows.

I'd also suppose this update won't affect you, cuz you're hopefully not running latest win11 on a server.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

In the nineties it produced the cleanest .rtf output of all the editors. Word makes toxic .rtf that unnecessarily turns formatting off and on at every line break and elsewhere too.

If it weren't for wordpad I wouldn't have learned how to output .rtf from my code.

RIP WordPad.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Word is now so bloated that I fear using it. It's nice to have Wordpad.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

As if Clippy wasn't doing that 25 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Yeah but Clippy was attractive. All those curves on display.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Now I had a mischievous long chuckle on the bus and the old ladies near me are a bit worried about me!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

It was very niche, but it’s great for viewing docs or other light work on a system you don’t want to install a whole office suite onto.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

You can still do that but it’s through word webview. Some people won’t like that option.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't want to install "word webview" on a server in order to look at a large log file or peruse some XML.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

You don’t, it’s a browser. You shouldn’t be doing anything interacting from a server anyways.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

its pretty neat if you dont have access to word, which is likely why they want to get rid of it

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Doubtful. There are a myriad of free and FOSS options that are available right now to people of even limited technological skill. WordPad isn't damaging their bottom line, but since it's certainly not adding to it, there's no point in maintaining it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago

Thing about wordpad at least for me is that its just there if you need to make quick document that doesnt have to be as specificially made as you need to use word, but still more nice looking than just using notepad. You also dont need word to read stuff made with it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Can't say I ever needed it in the 28 years I've been using Windows. I'm sure there are plenty who did, though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago

I used it all the time to save text temporarily in. Note worked too, but i like the line break that WordPad had. It made reading and formatting easier.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago

As others have said, fast opening quick notes with basic formatting.

For example, if I get an unexpected call I need to write down more than a call back number, Wordpad was my go to.

Well, at least when back when I used Windows regularly.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Microsoft's business model has often gotten in the way of anything they do making sense.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

Is there anything left to microsoft that makes sense at this point? Maybe the physical doors to the microsoft offices still function.. after you watch an ad?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

It was created for people to open Word docs at home before everyone had Office.

[–] AsudoxDev 2 points 3 weeks ago

In other words: bloat

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

Rtf is far more lightweight than docx. It's closer to markdown.