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

submitted 2 years ago by dantheclamman@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Yes, I would say notepad would be the bigger loss. But wordpad is still the default for people before they learn about things like notepad++

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[–] sloonark@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Notepad is the default text editor on Windows. I'd be surprised if most people even knew WordPad existed.

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[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Interestingly enough I have seen a lot of new PCs that have Wordpad as default (mostly dells and some HPs).

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[–] macrocephalic@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I have seen that too and the first thing you do is change it to notepad as wordpad isn't good for text files

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