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Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

thanks for nothing, hitler

[–] Gestrid 10 points 2 years ago

I honestly didn't even know it was still around. The last time I opened it was... Windows 7, I think?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I get it. MS has a “free” rich text editor, it’s Word online. You can easily install any other simple rich text editor (is abiword still a thing?) on Windows. Wordpad probably has minimal usage.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

No wtf microsoft!!

At least there's Notepad++. An absolute end of an era.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Wordpad is the rich text editor, it's not notepad

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A good alternative is abiword. Don't know if it exists on Windows tho.

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