Microsoft retires WordPad after 28 years — app no longer available as of Windows 11 24H2
Microsoft retires WordPad after 28 years — app no longer available as of Windows 11 24H2
Windows will no longer have an integrated basic rich-text-based word app.
Windows will no longer have an integrated basic rich-text-based word app.
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I hope it's still included on future Windows server versions. It's quite useful to open documentation or instructions included with some software.
I suppose you could install Word. If you want just Word, you can jump through a few hoops to make the Office Deployment Tool install only Word.
I don't think that is a reasonable solution for your use case, but I suspect making people use (and buy) the actual Office Suite is the motivation.
Edit: I see my point has been phrased poorly - I was trying to outline that I suspect MS' point is making people get Word (Office) instead. Maybe I'm just plain wrong on that though.
Notepad ++ is one of the first things I install on any windows system
Installing Word, on a server, running as administrator, forecefully linked to some MS account for activation... Is that really a reasonable solution in a Microsoft world? Smh.
If documentation comes as Word document there is no documentation and a huge red flag for the software.
I don't think that's a reasonable solution
Is that really a reasonable solution?
No. Of course not. My comment was tongue in cheek.
Wasn't really aimed at you but from the things I've seen I am afraid not all Windows administrators might realize that.