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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(gadgettendency.com)

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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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thehatfox@lemmy.world
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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?

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

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rottingleaf@lemmy.zip
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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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pete_the_cat@lemmy.world
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Haha I never understood why they had two office suites.

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Roldyclark@literature.cafe
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I use textedit in plain text mode daily

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