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
LibreOffice is a good solution for anything one would use Office or WordPad for. Works on Windows, Linux, and MacOS.
So the next Windows won’t come with any text editor unless you pay extra for Word?
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.
Nope. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/get-started-with-office-2021
$250 USD for the core apps.
I genuinely couldn’t find this, thanks.
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?
I use textedit in plain text mode daily
Reject modern GUI text editors, embrace Vim
<ESC> :q!
Now what program on windows is going to be indestructible?
Probably regedit.exe
