Microsoft phases out WordPad (and Cortana) after 28 years of duty
Microsoft phases out WordPad (and Cortana) after 28 years of duty
WordPad got into the shadow of MS Office and Notepad anyways.
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This development aligns with Microsoft's ongoing initiative to streamline its software offerings and concentrate on more sophisticated applications.
Gross corpospeak. Translated as "We never invested in this because we want you to buy the paid version. Now that the paid version has completely eclipsed the free version we will be deprecating it"
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Alternatively: "Not enough people cared to use this stuff, so we'll shift our efforts towards stuff that our users care more about".
Agreed on the corpospeak, though.
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100% corpo bullshit but laymen have moved to google docs for better or worse.
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How would you prefer they say it? Unless you mean to say they're not within their rights to stop giving away a product?
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They were never giving it away. They included wordpad with your purchase of windows. They no longer do. I don't think anyone is saying that windows is not "within their rights", they're saying that this degrades the product we already pay for. That is worth complaining about, even if our ultimate recourse primarily ends up being to find an OS that better serves our needs.
Honestly though I'm struggling to understand why you'd think that's about Microsoft's rights to begin with??
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I mean, I think they literally provided the preferred, truthful version of the statement?
“We never invested in this because we want you to buy the paid version. Now that the paid version has completely eclipsed the free version we will be deprecating it”
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that is sad. I like Wordpad. But, kate and Notepadnext is good alternatives
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This definitely sucks for the average, non-technical user. We can all use Sublime3 or Notepad++ or whatever other replacement tool we prefer, but the average user has no clue about those and will be tricked into thinking that paid-for Word is the only real easy and good option.
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This is Wordpad, not Notepad. There is still a perfectly functional plain text editor(until they decide to slam ads into it) for Windows. WordPad was a rich text editor. Sublime and Notepad++ don't really compete with that. LibreOffice and OnlyOffice exist for free in that space, but you are right that non-tech savvy users will struggle to find them on Windows.
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True, OpenOffice and LibreOffice are more direct replacements for a word-like interface. I use markdown for all my rich text editing needs, so in my mind Sublime3 and Notepad++ are the only replacement editors I think of (both support live markdown display with a plugin).
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Spread the word of libreoffice for those who don't want the ms office subscription
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