Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years::Microsoft announced today that it will deprecate WordPad with a future Windows update as it’s no longer under active development, though the company did not specify the precise timing of this change.

  • @[email protected]English
    34•1 year ago

    Notepad = good.

    WordPad = people randomly using it to open Word documents, breaking the document and calling me because the PC I built them five years ago is “destroying their documents”

  • cobysevEnglish
    7•1 year ago

    I used WordPad back in the Windows 95 days, then never again.

    As long as Notepad doesn’t go away though, I’m good. I use that all the time.

  • @[email protected]English
    3•1 year ago

    Not a problem. Notepad works great as scrap paper. Notepad++ for everything else. I don’t think I’ve used wordpad in over a decade.

  • @[email protected]English
    2•1 year ago

    Notepad good, wordpad bad.

    The only time I ever used wordpad was accidentally opening a docx on a PC without word on it and closing it immediately.

  • @[email protected]English
    1•1 year ago

    Good. I’m sick of dealing with lousy Windows admins using it and breaking files as a result. There are plenty of good and free word processors.