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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/[email protected]
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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* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

That's fine. Its usefulness dried up decades ago. There are better, free, non Microsoft word processing apps, and notepad always exists for your unimportant note taking.

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

I didn't mind having something light and built in for when I just wanted quickly to create a little rich text doc and not boot up full fat Word and the corresponding jump in resource usage and file size.