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RIP Microsoft WordPad. You Will Be Missed (gizmodo.com)
submitted 10 months ago by L4s to c/technology
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RIP Microsoft WordPad. You Will Be Missed::It's truly the end of an era as we say farewell to a real one.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I mean, Notepad is still there, and even with its simplicity and other issues (which have gotten a lot better), it's always been way better for text files than WordPad

[โ€“] tabular 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Notepad could be fine sometimes but they often have images in the documents given from our clients (who are often equally not skilled with computers).