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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    11 months ago

    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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      11 months ago

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

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      11 months 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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    11 months ago

    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.

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      11 months ago

      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.

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          11 months ago

          I’m gonna guess you’re not using MO2 though, that’s the biggest headache, along with using tools like Nemesis, Xedit, Synthesis and Dyndolod.

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            11 months ago

            It’s more than playable imo, tiny screen, sitting on the couch… the switch can’t even achieve a solid 30 fps on exclusive titles… I’ve played games with worse framerates on the deck

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              11 months ago

              700 mods Skyrim plays worse than fuckin TotK on a switch

              I say this as a person who only played TotK on a computer.

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    11 months ago

    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.

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      11 months 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.

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      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.

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      11 months 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

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    11 months ago

    I just use libreoffice or vim for general text stuff I haven’t used WordPad in 28 years. Was it ever able to edit Ms word documents? I feel like there was a reason I didn’t use it.

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      11 months ago

      Believe it dealt in rich text format rtf by default, think it was too limited for docx but I’m open to being corrected

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    11 months ago

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

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    If these fuckers touch notepad I’ll riot.

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

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      11 months ago

      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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        11 months ago

        I’ve had no issues. I don’t mind the tabs thing, because I’m the kinda buffoon who uses notepad like a notepad. Sometimes I close it and intentionally don’t save only to later be like shit, wish I didn’t do that, and now it’s like I didn’t!

        When I inevitably have issues though I will join you in complaining, because why do they always have to mess with shit!

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          11 months ago

          I use VSCode + Markdown for an actual notepad. The only thing I ever want from Notepad is to open a file as plain text, instantly, and let me read and search through the text, and maybe make a modification and save it. If I’m gonna be looking at the contents for more than 5 seconds it’s already a good idea to be using a proper text editor.

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        11 months ago

        if i had to use windows it’d be debloated 10

        11 sucks

        but linux is better than both

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      11 months 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.

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    11 months 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. 😂

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    11 months ago

    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.

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        11 months 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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