This is deeply unfortunate. WordPad is by far the best implementation of RTF anywhere.
But who uses RTF? I can't recall ever receiving an RTF file. Scanning my drives, I've only found a single Readme RTF file in some old Windows utilities.
Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows
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> I literally could write a WordPad clone in an afternoon You might be able to make a Notepad clone in an afternoon, but not wordpad. Creating parsers for all the formats it supports (rtf/doc/html) as well as the renderer/wysiwyg editor would take anyone several days of either coding, or stitching libs together.
The parser and renderer is a pre-existing RichTextEdit widget. Add menus and save, open, and print functionality and you are over 90% of the way to a WordPad clone.
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#104> 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?
They do have the cloud version of Office which is "free".
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#106The natural upgrade for WordPad did never come: basic html or markdown editing.
Aren’t you describing Frontpage Express? I think it was bundled with Windows 98?
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#107This is deeply unfortunate. WordPad is by far the best implementation of RTF anywhere.
And a regular source of rtf vulns as well unfortunately. But I am with you, needing s cloud word/office to edit rich text sucks.
Re: Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows
#108This is deeply unfortunate. WordPad is by far the best implementation of RTF anywhere.
But who uses RTF? I can't recall ever receiving an RTF file. Scanning my drives, I've only found a single Readme RTF file in some old Windows utilities.
It’s used a lot in the localization industry.
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#110I'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…
I always figured this was by design. Microsoft needed a GUI word processor that was free to stifle competition in the new "windows software" market, but not good enough to upset their Word business.
Good job WordPad - one of the flag bearers of Microsofts anti-competitive business practices.