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Microsoft retires WordPad after 28 years — app no longer available as of Windows 11 24H2
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This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
You can also still buy the Office package without subscription. The latest release is from 2024 and 2021 before that. But of course its expensive for basic stuff.
Oh I didn't actually realise that, I thought they'd just gone full Adobe with office 365
I'm fairly sure they want to, they keep trying to kill off the standalone version but always seem to keep giving it a reprieve.