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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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[–] 27 points 3 years ago (3 children)

Man fuck Microsoft. Killing a free app and replacing it with a paid app that has a subscription bundled.

What the actual fuck!!?

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  • [–] 28 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    It's word pad though, do you really ever use it? I use notepad for a quick temp fix in a pinch, I haven't used word pad in like 15 years.

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  • [+] 20 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)
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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Honestly if I need to format, that gets done in the app that I'm going to send whatever text.

    Whatever goes into notepad for me will either get deleted, go into notepad++, or whatever app I'm going to send it (office).

    Sounds like you could benefit from replacing WordPad with Notepad++.

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

    Regularly

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

    Wow really? What for? I've seriously never heard of or seen somebody use it.

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

    When I need to copy something from instructions out of a doc file, so much faster to open copy and close before word even opens

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  • [–] -1 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I'll be editing PDFs with standard Mac software that comes with the OS while Windows charges a fee to edit text files.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago

    Yeah but you need to install an app from the apple store if you want to tile your windows on your screen, or turn off mouse scroll acceleration. There's a lot of stuff each has which is missing from the other.

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