Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years
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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]
    8•2 years ago

    Might as well? I’m surprised notepad still hangs around and they’re not forcing Word/365. Wordpad is ok. But it’s in this weird middle ground between notepad and full office Word.

    So, I guess notepad++ will continue to thrive.

    • @[email protected]
      2•2 years ago

      Yeah, this is completely fair.

      Plus it competes with OneNote, Sticky Notes, and Notepad internally. How many note taking applications does an OS need to ship with, really?

  • @[email protected]
    2•2 years ago

    Makes sense. I use VSCodium or VSCode for everything I used to use WordPad for. Seems overdue for VSCode to be a built-in. If they start including the HTML and PDF generation plugins as stock, a lot more folks would probably switch.