Microsoft is getting rid of WordPad after 28 years – the veteran editor has been present in the OS since Windows 95::Microsoft has begun getting rid of another veteran application in its proprietary operating system. The company has released a new test build of Windows 11

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    11 months ago

    For all intents and purposes it was free word

    I haven’t really used word in over half a decade since TeX beats it in every conceivable way.

    Wordpad was useful in the sparse few cases where I was forced to open a .doc or .docx and couldn’t be arsed to upload the file to Google docs

    I guess it will be missed for that