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Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
submitted 1 year ago by dantheclamman to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just use notepad++ when I have to use Windows PCs.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wordpad is a rich text editor not a plain text editor.

I can't say I've used Wordpad intentionally - ever -, but they do serve different functions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

If you ever have to open a .rtf file (you won't) it's one of the few programs that natively supports it.