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Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
submitted 1 year ago by dantheclamman@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] elshanerino@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

eh, there's plenty of tools out there like notepad++, atom, obsidian, etc.

[–] Molecular0079@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wordpad is WYSIWIG, the alternatives you mentioned are more for replacing Notepad.

But yeah, why use WordPad when LibreOffice exists?

[–] DadVolante@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

WordPad is wonderful for opening notepad documents written by modders who don't understand how to make paragraphs

[–] Aux@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

And none of them are doing what WordPad is doing.

[–] Squids@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago

Or if you're using for purely notes, OneNote is like, right there. In your system tray. For free.