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Microsoft retires WordPad after 28 years — app no longer available as of Windows 11 24H2 (www.tomshardware.com)
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Windows will no longer have an integrated basic rich-text-based word app.

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[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Doubtful. There are a myriad of free and FOSS options that are available right now to people of even limited technological skill. WordPad isn't damaging their bottom line, but since it's certainly not adding to it, there's no point in maintaining it.

[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thing about wordpad at least for me is that its just there if you need to make quick document that doesnt have to be as specificially made as you need to use word, but still more nice looking than just using notepad. You also dont need word to read stuff made with it.

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Sure, though it's not something that anyone is likely to switch OSes for.