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Another one bites the dust: Microsoft buries WordPad, but there is an afterlife (www.notebookcheck.net)

submitted 1 month ago by mrddu3at2 to c/[email protected]

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"WordPad users who want to keep using it after updating to Windows 11 24H2 can do so by simply saving Wordpad.exe, wordpadfilter.dll, and write.exe. The first two are located in the C:\Program Files\Windows NT\Accessories folder, while the last can be found in C:\Windows."

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They have to kill it. Otherwise, some "cheapskate" might decide they don't need to pay for MS Word, or get spied on by having all their data in the cloud using MS Office Online.

Or they just think there's no reason to keep it around.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Reminder - Libra Office also works in Windows. So does Open Office.