dantheclamman@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoMicrosoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 yearswww.bleepingcomputer.comexternal-linkmessage-square486fedilinkarrow-up11.12Karrow-down125cross-posted to: sysadmin@lemmy.world
arrow-up11.09Karrow-down1external-linkMicrosoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 yearswww.bleepingcomputer.comdantheclamman@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square486fedilinkcross-posted to: sysadmin@lemmy.world
minus-squareelshanerino@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down3·10 months agoeh, there’s plenty of tools out there like notepad++, atom, obsidian, etc.
minus-squareMolecular0079@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·10 months agoWordpad is WYSIWIG, the alternatives you mentioned are more for replacing Notepad. But yeah, why use WordPad when LibreOffice exists?
minus-squareDadd Volante@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-210 months agoWordPad is wonderful for opening notepad documents written by modders who don’t understand how to make paragraphs
minus-squareAux@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·10 months agoAnd none of them are doing what WordPad is doing.
minus-squareSquids@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·10 months agoOr if you’re using for purely notes, OneNote is like, right there. In your system tray. For free.
eh, there’s plenty of tools out there like notepad++, atom, obsidian, etc.
Wordpad is WYSIWIG, the alternatives you mentioned are more for replacing Notepad.
But yeah, why use WordPad when LibreOffice exists?
WordPad is wonderful for opening notepad documents written by modders who don’t understand how to make paragraphs
And none of them are doing what WordPad is doing.
Or if you’re using for purely notes, OneNote is like, right there. In your system tray. For free.