> We recommend Microsoft Word for rich text documents like .doc and .rtf Doesn’t Office require a paid license on top of the Windows license, unlike WordPad?
OneDrive consumer is free but you have to put files on the cloud.
Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows
91–100 of 367 posts
Re: Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows
#92[flagged]
Each feature requires a manager, PM, and dev. WordPad is not free of security vulnerabilities.
No shipping code is free.
Re: Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows
#93Is Notepad now able to read files with UNIX-style line endings? Because Wordpad was the only one able to read .txt files created on Linux.
Yes it can do that now, at least on Windows 10
Re: Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows
#94I'm always sad to see applications go (especially if the recommended alternative is a paid software), but did that thing ever work properly? In the past decade I used Windows only when someone held a gun to my head, but before that I remember that WordPad always messed up all documents I have ever opened: weird page and line breaks, picture and textbox formatting all over the place, and saving a document was a good w…
Nobody uses WordPad, nobody wants to improve WordPad, WordPad will be sunset.
Re: Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows
#95Shame. Notepad++ should now be the go to, right?
Re: Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows
#96Word pad was basically Word for Windows 6 and was quite usable for basic needs. Really only finally out to pasture by the free Google Docs, I’m sure wordpad killed a decent ecosystem of editors that may one day have competed with Word.
Everything MS does is for the business case. Wordpad, windows, etc exist only in a capitalist context and need a financial justification to exist. It was there exactly for the reasons you state, to kill the word processor market in Windows. Previously you had all these other players but Win95 came with Wordpad for free which had a lot of functionality. For pros, you could buy Word. I don't think we appreciate how man…
In the era you mentioned, most new PCs came bundled with Microsoft Works. A basic word processor feels like a sensible inclusion in any OS that is useful to consumers out of the box, it was Works that was more problematic for the competition.
The floor has fallen out since then and there are so many free or cheap office productivity options. Works stopped being a thing eons ago and I would guess WordPad is rarely chosen. Disuse is a good reason to say goodbye.
Re: Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows
#97> we recommend Microsoft Word
Which now costs $159.99?!
Re: Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows
#98>There’s no reason to be outraged by this decision Actually, I have a reason to be outraged by this decision. I like using WordPad, and it will take me time and effort to find an adequate replacement for a simple note-taking application.
Try Obsidian.
Re: Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows
#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
LibreOffice isn't exactly lightweight, but it is a Free (as in beer, and as in speech) local alternative. https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download-libreoffice/ edit: Huh, it's even less lightweight for Windows. The Linux downloads come in around 200-220MiB, but the Windows downloads are around 320-350MiB. Weird.
i was going to suggest abiword but even their website is gone now? first itunes apple movie trailers and now wordpad
You can still download Abiword from other websites e.g. https://filehippo.com/download_abiword/
Re: Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows
#100> we recommend Microsoft Word Which now costs $159.99?!
Of course. Breaking every tracking script that marketers try to share is hard work! And you laugh now, but wait until they roll out Clippy GPT-4 edition.