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Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 3 years ago by dantheclamman@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] senoro@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 years ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] Sabata11792@kbin.social 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

It's the "I got to change 1 of code" editor.

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[–] elrac@kbin.social 7 points 3 years ago

The "my IDE didn't recognize the file type and opened it in here by default" editor.

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[–] danielton@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 4 points 3 years ago

WordPad was often used if a file was too big for Notepad, over 64 KB. But now there are better options.

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