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minus-squarestoly@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 months agoWordpad, as I recall, only existed because back in the Windows 95 days nobody had Office and couldn’t open Word documents.
minus-squaredan@upvote.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoWordPad 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.
minus-squareFiskFisk33@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agopeople still don’t, right? I cant imagine it’s very common outside of company computers
minus-squareyonder@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoThey should preinstall libre office as a replacement.
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 Windows rich-text editing component. Its C++ source code came bundled with MFC (Microsoft Foundation Classes) as a sample.
people still don’t, right? I cant imagine it’s very common outside of company computers
They should preinstall libre office as a replacement.