Windows 12 will likely be the end of the road for WordPad.
I’m amazed to hear people actually used word pad. It’s such a horrible editor with extremely poor file type support.
Right? I never quite understood who it was actually for, either. I mean, notepad makes sense, but wordpad just seemed like a worse version of MS Word.
I guess it could have been for those who needed something more sophisticated than notepad but didn’t want to spend money to get Word?
Idk, that’s the only reason I can think of right now lol.
Is that not enough of a reason for you?
Seems like a big one to me
It is good for distribution of readme files with software. WordPad files let you do rich text unlike Notepad.
It’s pretty out of the way for quick notes, while Word has so much going on, while Notepad doesn’t have some important features
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Once MSOffice / MSWord etc. are fully cloud based, they can say “oh it’s too big to fit on your computer, so a local copy is infeasible” and Wordpad would be the complete antithesis of all of that. It’s clearly small enough to fit and always will be. Can’t be having an easy disproof like that.
Then will begin the FUD, “accidental” breaking and disallowing of foreign programs that would fit on local storage that would also compete with MSWord until there’s a walled garden not unlike Apple’s.
The only reason I ever used it was when I needed something quick that could read unix line breaks and I didn’t have time or a connection to install notepad++. I think they fixed the line break issue in notepad, so there hasn’t been a reason that I’ve used it.
