Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years
Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years
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Notepad is, in fact, under active development. They recently upgraded find and replace so it works 90% of the time instead of 30% and added some annoying restore session by default feature. not to mention tabs
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I hadn't noticed tabs! I'll have to check that shit out!
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I interviewed at Microsoft decades ago and found a bug in notepad during my interview when they gave me a laptop and asked me how I would test notepad.
Their faces indicated that this was not supposed to be a productive exercise.
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did you get the job?
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I'd never had an issue with find and replace, but then I tend to install notepad++ straight away.
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I am forced to use windows 11 in some capacity for work and the notepad on it is actually really nice.
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it will deprecate WordPad with a future Windows update as it’s no longer under active development
It doesn't need "active development" because it is perfect the way it is. Unix/Linux has tons of useful programs that haven't been in active development for 40-50 years.
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Notepad is just a barebones text editor. I doubt there were any substantial changes since Windows 95, other than ensuring it runs on a 32 and later 64 bit infrastructure, and the menu works with newer releases. That sounds like a 1h per quarter job at most.
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Windows 11 notepad is wildly different than what we've known with good ol pre-11 notepad.
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Ah, interesting. I'm still on 10.
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11 sucks but notepad and explorer are pretty nice.
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I haven't been using Wordpad for 20+ years. Notepad could do everything it does already. Then, you also have Firefox's built-in inspect to tinker with code on the fly.
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Word pad is a rich text editor.
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