ScintillaTE is an old-ass one. Most people have never heard of it, and those that have have only heard of its variant, UniSciTE, which came bundled as the default text editor for Unity, something like 15 years ago.

I didn’t know Joeffice had a fork. What’s it called?

Assuming you are talking about OpenOffice and LibreOffice, there's also CollaboraOffice (although this may be counted as another half one, since it's a online fork of LO) and OnlyOffice in the FOSS sphere. Probably more out there I'm not aware off.

I think AbiWord is still around, which used to be the FOSS simple, WordPad-like word processor of choice.

A lot of ebooks seem to be more epub or pdf these days. RTF isn't used quite so much.

And huge. And bloated, if you only need simple functionality.

Except it will nuke .docx formatting. Same in reverse.
I make templates for my clients and I always tell them not to open and save in any other client other than OpenOffice.
Even Libre does nuke some parts to some extend...

You’re assuming everyone is a power user. There will be thousands of people who won’t have an alternative and think that paying for word is the only option.

This is to fuck over the casual computer user who doesn’t know better or alternatives. Microsoft already knows that more informed users like us are a lost cause to upsell.

This is also why they tried that “malware” pop up to get people to go back to Edge. To once again, fuck over uninformed users.

He must be thinking of notepad. Which I mean, I would not choose to code in Notepad but I wouldn’t actively avoid it like I would wordpad.