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Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] [S] 33 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Honestly I'm not too bummed, especially with open-source solutions like Notepad++, but it's the end of an era! Also, Word is paid, and so Windows not having a built in free RTF editor is notable

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Windows not having a built in free RTF editor is notable

    Yeah, that is a bit odd, but then again when's the last time you've seen something other than a cut-rate eBook in RTF? Everything is either some variant of plain text or a DOC file these days.

    Plus, it's rare that you ever need to edit RTF files. Read, sure, but that could be handled by Word Viewer, which is free.

    EDIT: Right, they're discontinuing the viewers, but apparently they have a cloud-based online thing that's free? Sucks if you live somewhere with crap internet I guess.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    RTF is a rarity these days since basically every phone, tablet, and other handheld device can handle either PDFs or HTML (and ePub is basically just a ZIP file with HTML in a specific naming scheme and structure). Back in the day though you'd find RTFs more often for use in budget/jury-rigged eReader options. It's much easier to parse, if nothing else.

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