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dantheclamman to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years ago

Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years

www.bleepingcomputer.com

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Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years

www.bleepingcomputer.com

dantheclamman to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years ago
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    29•2 years ago

    Honestly, this blows. WordPad fills a niche between a full blown text editor and notepad. Most of my random daily notes use WordPad still when not OneNote.

    • prole
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      6•2 years ago

      Notepad++ was a good alternative when I was running Windows

      • @Buffalox@lemmy.world
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        1•2 years ago

        That’s an alternative to Notepad, not for Wordpad that has basic word processing formatting.

    • @afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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      3•2 years ago

      Wow someone was using this?

    • @SeatBeeSate@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2•2 years ago

      You can likely still grab the exe and use it

    • @aidan@lemmy.world
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      1•2 years ago

      I recently started using a markdown based note taking program called Joplin, that might be useful for you

      • @abcxyz@lemm.ee
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        3•2 years ago

        Check out Obsidian ;)

        • @spader312@lemmy.world
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          1•2 years ago

          I love obsidian too!

    • @royalbarnacle@lemmy.world
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      I don’t get why they aren’t retiring notepad instead. WordPad is just as light and fast while having more features.

      Not that I really care, I never touch either ever since MS basically stopped developing them 25 years ago. Notepad++, atom, etc, there are so many superb lightweight editors out there.

      • @AxleGrinder@lemmy.world
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        3•2 years ago

        Probably don’t use Atom though seeing as it was sunset at the end of 2022

      • @BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk
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        1•2 years ago

        Notepad is absolutely a fantastic tool for stripping any formatting from text and loading a file exactly how you expect it. Like vim only without the easy to use shortcuts.

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