Windows will no longer have an integrated basic rich-text-based word app.

  • AbidanYre@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Wordpad always seemed like an annoying and unnecessary half-step between notepad and word to me.

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          3 months ago

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

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            3 months ago

            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.

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          3 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.

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      3 months ago

      It was very niche, but it’s great for viewing docs or other light work on a system you don’t want to install a whole office suite onto.

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        3 months ago

        You can still do that but it’s through word webview. Some people won’t like that option.

        • Buelldozer@lemmy.today
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          3 months ago

          I don’t want to install “word webview” on a server in order to look at a large log file or peruse some XML.

          • Brkdncr@lemmy.world
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            3 months ago

            You don’t, it’s a browser. You shouldn’t be doing anything interacting from a server anyways.

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      3 months ago

      its pretty neat if you dont have access to word, which is likely why they want to get rid of it

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        3 months ago

        Doubtful. There are a myriad of free and FOSS options that are available right now to people of even limited technological skill. WordPad isn’t damaging their bottom line, but since it’s certainly not adding to it, there’s no point in maintaining it.

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          3 months ago

          Thing about wordpad at least for me is that its just there if you need to make quick document that doesnt have to be as specificially made as you need to use word, but still more nice looking than just using notepad. You also dont need word to read stuff made with it.

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      3 months ago

      Can’t say I ever needed it in the 28 years I’ve been using Windows. I’m sure there are plenty who did, though.

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        3 months ago

        I used it all the time to save text temporarily in. Note worked too, but i like the line break that WordPad had. It made reading and formatting easier.

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      3 months ago

      As others have said, fast opening quick notes with basic formatting.

      For example, if I get an unexpected call I need to write down more than a call back number, Wordpad was my go to.

      Well, at least when back when I used Windows regularly.

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        3 months ago

        Is there anything left to microsoft that makes sense at this point? Maybe the physical doors to the microsoft offices still function… after you watch an ad?

    • stoly@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      It was created for people to open Word docs at home before everyone had Office.

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    3 months ago

    Microsoft: We can’t spy on your usage when you use wordpad, use O365 instead! (guessing since MS recommends using O365 Word in its place).

    TBH, I haven’t used wordpad since Windows 98. Not saying others don’t use it, but Notepad++ and a myriad of other options are better anyway.

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      You wouldn’t add AI to a hand bag?! You wouldn’t add AI to a car?! You wouldn’t add AI to a baby?! You wouldn’t shoot a police man?! … and then steal his helmet?! … and then add AI to it?!

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    Oh get fucked Microsoft. Now I have to use notepad when I put the tape measure on the spacebar so teams doesn’t change my status to idle.

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    3 months ago

    I’ve used windows since the 90s. Not once have I intentionally used WordPad.

    It did open by default for some file types for a long time (.doc), usually mangling the content cause it couldn’t actually handle them properly. I think it was also the default for .txt files at some point, causing many curse words when editing plain text files, that invisibly weren’t so plain any more after… Programs expecting a configuration fine really don’t like that sort of thing.

    So: I’m very ok with this. Just install LibreOffice or something if you needa Word-like experience. Install notepad++ for anything “plain”.

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    And so the bloodline of windows write is extinguished

    This is kinda sad that if you want to do even basic word processing with Microsoft software, your only option now is an ongoing subscription to do so.

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      3 months ago

      …your only option now is an ongoing subscription to do so.

      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.

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        Oh I didn’t actually realise that, I thought they’d just gone full Adobe with office 365

    • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 months ago

      I’ve had no real issuses with the new notepad.

      I just hope that they don’t continue adding too much stuff to it and it becomes the new wordpad and we don’t have a basic box to put text anymore.

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        3 months ago

        One of my biggest problems with the new notepad is you’ve lost using it as a forgettable scratch space. Anything you put in the new Notepad now gets written to your drive, even if you don’t save the file.

        You can’t type or copy/paste anything sensitive into notepad anymore as a temporary space even if you don’t save the file.

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    3 months ago

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

    • dan@upvote.au
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      3 months 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.

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      It is an obvious maneuver, to be fair to Nadella. Not only will this push more over to subscription based word processing, but it also closes one of the easier avenues useds have to avoid aggregated data farming. Their next move should be to turn Notepad into a complementary tiered program:
      Tier 1) Use at no charge, but your data pays for it instead.
      Tier 2) Notepad becomes an extra pay to unlock feature of 365.

  • Toes♀@ani.social
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    3 months ago

    Sad but expected. Most people are using either office or one of the free alternatives by now.