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Microsoft retires WordPad after 28 years — app no longer available as of Windows 11 24H2 (www.tomshardware.com)
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Windows will no longer have an integrated basic rich-text-based word app.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Wordpad, as I recall, only existed because back in the Windows 95 days nobody had Office and couldn’t open Word documents.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

WordPad in Windows 95 was a demonstration of how to use the Windows rich-text editing component. Its C++ source code came bundled with MFC (Microsoft Foundation Classes) as a sample.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

people still don't, right? I cant imagine it's very common outside of company computers

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

They should preinstall libre office as a replacement.