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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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[–] 9 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Google Docs is free and has basically become the standard word processor for the “unsophisticated users” you’re worried about. It essentially comes with your OS because you only need a browser to use it.

I think your kid and his children will survive.

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

    Making things in Google Docs is fine, but last I checked Google Docs just sucked at opening anything that wasn't already a GDoc. LibreOffice Writer sometimes has formatting errors opening Word Docs, but it does a miles better job than Google Docs.

    Also, I hate how normalized everything using the cloud (aka "Someone Else's Hard Drive") for no reason is.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Well to be fair to Google (urgh, that hurt to write) that's by design, and LO doing so well at it is due to investing a lot of engineering time on it. Basically MS released an open standard for office documents, but refuses to use this open standard themselves, and instead keeps using an ever evolving "transitional" version of their standard that isn't made public.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago*

    it still has strings attached, its not truly "free". heck, google won't let it be word pad had no ties to Microsoft once it was given to you. everything else but LibreOffice and some others still have its creator's ties.

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