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Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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[–] [email protected] 141 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not everyone has the money for a copy of Word. There once was a time when free rich text editors were valuable. But at this point I agree it isn't needed anymore. There are plenty of FOSS alternatives to word that hit that market. Microsoft has probably kept it around this long to prevent people from looking, but now they've put their bet on cloud services.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

There are plenty of FOSS alternatives to word that hit that market.

Plenty? I know one and its fork. That's about one and a half.

EDIT: Oh, you probably meant the rich text editors like Wordpad, not text processors like Word. My bad for misunderstanding.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Knowing the Internet, it would be Joemom, I presume? :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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