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Microsoft is getting rid of WordPad after 28 years – the veteran editor has been present in the OS since Windows 95::Microsoft has begun getting rid of another veteran application in its proprietary operating system. The company has released a new test build of Windows 11

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[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago (2 children)

LibreOffice is a good solution for anything one would use Office or WordPad for. Works on Windows, Linux, and MacOS.

[–] Ottomateeverything@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Libre Office is a good replacement for Office/Word, but it is much heavier than WordPad.

[–] udadu@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

It even feels heavier than Office on windows (on linux it feels much better).

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[–] ashaman2007@lemm.ee 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Notepad++, is not really meant to be a replacement to WordPad.

[–] thehatfox@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Seems kinda sad. I doubt it’s a program many people use (or even know of) these days, but there is an odd charm to super simple rich text editors like WordPad and TextEdit in macOS.

I suppose AbiWord sorta fills that niche as a replacement.

Anyone remember Microsoft Office’s weird cousin, Works?

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Forgot Works ever existed! That takes me back. So glad they killed that mess.

[–] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Haha I never understood why they had two office suites.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago

I'm trying to use AbiWord when possible, but since it supports DOCX, I use it for DOCX, and a heavy DOCX file opened in AbiWord means lots of CPU usage all the time it's opened, while LibreOffice doesn't have that problem.

Maybe Ted fits more as a WordPad replacement.

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[–] littletranspunk@lemmus.org 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh well, Windows has become that one OS I use for one or two things that I complain every time I have to spin up my VM to use.

[–] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I only use it to play games, mainly a heavily modded Skyrim. It's just too much of a pain in the ass to get MO2 to launch the Linux version of Steam so that I can use Proton to launch SKSE. I finally managed to get it to work once and was getting at 15 FPS on my RTX 3070.

[–] Really_long_toes@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I play modded skyrim (700+ mods) with my steam deck, runs great

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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

It was "Write" before Win95.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

WordPad was in that weird area between Notepad and Word (oh I get it, WordPad). I nevel felt like there was much use for it.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 9 points 1 year ago

In the 90s, there was no LibreOffice/OpenOffice, and Word was expensive. It did rich text WYSIWYG formatting for free. Was never great, but it was functional.

Not much point to it anymore, though.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago

It was useful back in Windows 98 when Notepad wouldn't open anything bigger than 64KB.

That's about the last time I used it.

[–] V0lD@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

For all intents and purposes it was free word

I haven't really used word in over half a decade since TeX beats it in every conceivable way.

Wordpad was useful in the sparse few cases where I was forced to open a .doc or .docx and couldn't be arsed to upload the file to Google docs

I guess it will be missed for that

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Reject modern GUI text editors, embrace Vim

[–] AbsurdityAccelerator@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I've been using for the last 2 years becuase I don't know how to exit it.

[–] Mrduckrocks@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Hopefully you find a way out........please let me know if you have found a way out.

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] Poutinetown@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You mean "Esc Esc Del Esc Ctrl-C Ctrl-C Ctrl-X Ctrl-Q Esc Esc F11 Ctrl-Z Del Del Del Del F11 F12 F2 Backspace Esc Esc fn0wosnfosjvopakgnapociwbsopalfnnqod9gjbqnspfojwbab9fiehjr "

[–] jerrythegenius@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Nah that's emacs

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I legitimately loled, we've all been there.

[–] finestnothing@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Emacs is a fine operating system, lacking only a good text editor.

Edit: For the record, I code in emacs every day at work. (Please send help.)

[–] finestnothing@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh I definitely agree - and highly recommend checking out doom emacs to solve that. It's emacs configured to use vim keybinds instead (and other QOL features). It adds a bit less than 200 add-ons by default, but they're only loaded as needed so startup time is still <1 second

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 11 points 1 year ago

Good.

Anybody who misses it should use LibreOffice instead.

[–] lawrence@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So the next Windows won't come with any text editor unless you pay extra for Word?

[–] kn33@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

Notepad with AI, so you can continue to not use Notepad, but with AI.

[–] awesomesauce309@midwest.social 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There’s still notepad, but Windows 11 office suite is already subscription only. They’re only taking wordpad out so people who don’t know better are pushed to buy in to the racket.

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[–] Modva@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If these fuckers touch notepad I'll riot.

Actually that's not true, I'll just be quietly annoyed.

[–] Dagrothus@reddthat.com 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

And soon wordpad++?

[–] poopkins@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Team Sublime!

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

They've already touched it. It has a new UI, new features, and has crashed on me multiple times. They're about to add AI shit to it too.

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[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

They already did. They added tabs to it, which honestly was a pleasant surprise but loooooong overdue. Apps like Notepad++ had stolen the reason for Notepad to exist long ago.

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 8 points 1 year ago

Don't worry lads, there'll be several open source clones of this within weeks all with various missing functionality. You won't have to be without for long. 😂

[–] guy_threepwood@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

AbiWord was probably the closest as a FLOSS equivalent?

[–] SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] guy_threepwood@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Sadly yeah. Hence “was” ☹️

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Now what program on windows is going to be indestructible?

[–] holycrap@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago

Anything intended to serve ads or invade your privacy.

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[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Didn't Windows for Workgroups (3.12) also have WordPad? I remember something that was more complex than Notepad being released with pre-95 Windows.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

3.11 (not 3.12, which was never a thing) apparently came with Microsoft Write.

[–] wikibot@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Here's the summary for the wikipedia article you mentioned in your comment:

Microsoft Write is a basic word processor included with Windows 1. 0 and later, until Windows NT 3. 51. Throughout its lifespan it was minimally updated, and is comparable to early versions of MacWrite. Early versions of Write only work with Write Document (.

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