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Microsoft retires WordPad after 28 years — app no longer available as of Windows 11 24H2
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Wordpad, as I recall, only existed because back in the Windows 95 days nobody had Office and couldn’t open Word documents.
WordPad in Windows 95 was a demonstration of how to use the rich-text editing component built into Windows. Its C++ source code came bundled with MFC (Microsoft Foundation Classes - programming library for making Windows apps using C++) as a sample.
The fact that it was a useful tool for end users was essentially just a side effect.
people still don't, right? I cant imagine it's very common outside of company computers
Anyone who works for or studies at any organization has it.
They should preinstall libre office as a replacement.