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Microsoft retires WordPad after 28 years — app no longer available as of Windows 11 24H2 (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Windows will no longer have an integrated basic rich-text-based word app.

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[–] [email protected] 106 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 114 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months 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] 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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 2 months ago

Lol. Good point!

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago

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