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Microsoft retires WordPad after 28 years — app no longer available as of Windows 11 24H2 (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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Windows will no longer have an integrated basic rich-text-based word app.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)

WordPad didn't exist until Windows 95. You might be thinking of Microsoft Write, which predated it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In Windows 95, wordpad was still write.exe, is it possible they just renamed it?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Definitely possible, but I think WordPad in Windows 95 was written from scratch.