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cmd is pretty much deprecated in favor of powershell. And both have the best terminal application available on any OS.
There's nowhere such a statement in windows. Last time i looked, accesories still included cmd.
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WordPad was an official sample application for the MFC and OLE: https://web.archive.org/web/20070429125746/http://msdn2.micr...
from https://github.com/microsoft/VCSamples/tree/master/VC2010Sam... "The WordPad sample demonstrates how to implement an application that imitates the functionality of WordPad, including the user interface elements and some of the capabilities." I should have known it wasn't the real Win95 WordPad source code since this version is written using MFC and C++. C++ was not an approved programming language for Win95 comp…
from https://web.archive.org/web/20070127011040/http://blogs.msdn...: "...RichEdit 1.0 was wrapped in MFC to produce WordPad as an example of how MFC could be used for text processing. This was shipped with Windows 95 as mentioned in the previous post."
More RichEdit history: https://web.archive.org/web/20070306114503/http://blogs.msdn...
Fun fact: Before WordPad there was Microsoft Write. Typing 'write' in the Run dialog still opens WordPad today. They kept the alias for 28 years.
I don't have a reference for this but I remember reading that Microsoft had to create Wordpad from scratch because they lost the code for Write. I do remember that when they introduced Wordpad it was missing several features present in Write and a very visible one was justified text.
see https://web.archive.org/web/20070306114503/http://blogs.msdn...
One interesting thing about WordPad (at least from the Windows XP / 7 era) was that it supported the complete OLE2 / ActiveX stack. This let you do all kinds of things like embed other types of controls (like canvases or images from Paint, or Excel tables) inside your document, and WordPad's UI would jump through all the hoops to update and transform into the embedded application's UI when that control gained focus.…
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Microsoft Write (which supported RTF) was included in Windows 1.0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Write For Win95, the new included-in-the-box email client required a text editor which supported multiple fonts, colours, font styles, et al. But Microsoft Write code was not written to be modular and cross-platform (much of the Win95 email client code would also run on the Macintosh, for Mac OS System 7.x). So…
Funiest thing is, in win11, the notepad use RichEdit again (but use winui's richedit control, not win32
"The Windows 11 Notepad uses the RichEditD2DPT window class with a recent Microsoft 365 RichEdit."
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I took > will be removed in a future release of Windows to mean it's not just unmaintained (indeed that's fine) but actively removed from your computer
Yeah, but it’s not like it’ll be impossible to find a copy of it
Similar to a local ice cream store, it may not be the best in existence, but the advantage is in it being right there right now
in one way, this is a good thing, right? But in another, how do i manage old servers which still use TLS1.0 or TLS1.1... The only browser i can use, most of the time, is Firefox for getting into older IPMI endpoints (old servers that dont get security updates... Thanks HP/Dell...). Guess i will be using a Linux VM for managing that kind of gear now...
One interesting thing about WordPad (at least from the Windows XP / 7 era) was that it supported the complete OLE2 / ActiveX stack. This let you do all kinds of things like embed other types of controls (like canvases or images from Paint, or Excel tables) inside your document, and WordPad's UI would jump through all the hoops to update and transform into the embedded application's UI when that control gained focus.…
One neat OLE object (btw this works even in Windows 10 - i don't know about 11) is the "package" which allows you to embed any file as an OLE object. So basically you can drop an image file, PDF, video, program or anything else in WordPad and it'll put an icon representing it that if the user double clicks it'd be equivalent to them doubleclicking a file. Of course most of the time it isn't very practical (and WordPa…