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They should open-source it, as they did with Calculator.
Libre office writer is a thing
Another thing. But there's a lot of markdown and other lightweight markup editors.
I wonder if anyone thought about looking up WordPal in the Microsoft Store and think about maybe that could be what it evolved into.
Problem is, it's not installed by default
I hope it's still included on future Windows server versions. It's quite useful to open documentation or instructions included with some software.
Word pad the goat of somehow interpreting files as not UTF8
here's a little known fact about WordPad: It was Microsoft's first word processing program. Originally introduced as an add-on to MS-DOS in 1981, WordPad later became a part of Windows in the 1990s after the release of Windows 95. It was designed to be simpler and more user-friendly than its more advanced counterpart, Microsoft Word.
WordPad didn't exist until Windows 95. You might be thinking of Microsoft Write, which predated it.
In Windows 95, wordpad was still write.exe, is it possible they just renamed it?
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.
As long as you have notepad, you're good.
What if I want rich text?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_markup_language
https://www.markdownguide.org/
https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/restructuredtext/basics.html
Any good missing?
Well and then there are interactive or side-by-side editors for most of them.
Markdown?
You should probably reconsider.
Have your butler do it for you
Too bad, only the poorest text for you.
*economically challenged text
idc what people say mswrite was always > wordpad > word
