Windows will no longer have an integrated basic rich-text-based word app.

Windows will no longer have an integrated basic rich-text-based word app.

  • OzoneGameDev@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I guess it’s to direct more people to Microsoft 365 and Word. I hope that in reality more people will start to use LibreOffice and others.

    • sheogorath@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      My office had a period where we used LibreOffice and others because of some licensing dispute with Microsoft. However that period of peace ended when we migrated to 365.

    • filcuk@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I’ve used windows since dos and have never once used wordpad in my entire life.
      For basic text, notepad is just fine. For anything fancy, wordpad isn’t good enough.
      I feel that it doesn’t have a place anywhere. It’s like the bizarre paint 3D they’ve recently discontinued.

  • celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 days ago

    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.

    • realitista@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 day 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.

  • rottingleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Could they please retire modern Windows UI design?

    Those contrasting color squares are not the zen those designers think. UI layout being different in paradigm for every application is not the productivity improvement they think. Using titlebars for something other than titles and control buttons is not optimization. Those buttons being some scratches on the screen barely visible is crap from any PoV I can imagine.

    And somebody should explain to them that a good design for a billboard, a good design for a glossy magazine, a good design for a shop front, a good design for an office, a good design for a videogame, a good design for a movie and a good design for a workstation are all mutually incompatible in vast majority of cases.

    And again about zen, simplicity, air and all that. I understand they think they are very smart and understanding of aesthetics. But zen would be having clean window borders and clearly visible control elements, for starters. And buttons not being just color squares. And in general solutions being subordinate to functional goals of the UI being usable. Industrial ergonomics are zen.

    EDIT: I know it’s offtopic, not interested - keep walking

    • Mercuri@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I remember a while back Microsoft did an market research thing and found that of their brands, “Xbox” had positive consumer feedback while many of their other product names weren’t nearly as favorable.

      So what did they do? Did they try to understand what Xbox did differently to leverage that strategy elsewhere? Did they promote the Xbox marketing team to give them a wider purview?

      No. They just renamed Zune Music to Xbox Music and Games for Windows to Xbox for Windows. THAT’LL FIX IT!

      • rottingleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 days ago

        It just pains me to see, remember Chinese websites and software around 2007-2008?

        Everybody (aware) looked at that with terror.

        Now it’s the same everywhere.

  • Enzy@lemm.ee
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    3 days ago

    Now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time… A long time.

  • Konala Koala@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I wonder if anyone thought about looking up WordPal in the Microsoft Store and think about maybe that could be what it evolved into.

  • Mwa@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Still on the last windows os am ever gonna use windows 10

    • theherk@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 days ago

      If you don’t plan to upgrade even after security updates end, what’s keeping you there now?

      • Mwa@lemm.eeEnglish
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        3 days ago

        Am prob gonna use linux fully and secondary os macos (not 100% sure erm) I also meant like windows oses

        • theherk@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 days ago

          Fair enough. If you do run MacOS, I highly recommend UTM for running guest OS’s. It uses qemu and I have really found it to be even nicer than parallels.

  • lud@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I hope it’s still included on future Windows server versions. It’s quite useful to open documentation or instructions included with some software.

    • luciferofastora@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      3 days ago

      I suppose you could install Word. If you want just Word, you can jump through a few hoops to make the Office Deployment Tool install only Word.

      I don’t think that is a reasonable solution for your use case, but I suspect making people use (and buy) the actual Office Suite is the motivation.

      • Antithetical@lemmy.deedium.nlEnglish
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        3 days ago

        Installing Word, on a server, running as administrator, forecefully linked to some MS account for activation… Is that really a reasonable solution in a Microsoft world? Smh.

        If documentation comes as Word document there is no documentation and a huge red flag for the software.

        • luciferofastora@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          2 days ago

          I don’t think that’s a reasonable solution

          Is that really a reasonable solution?

          No. Of course not. My comment was tongue in cheek.

  • _____@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Word pad the goat of somehow interpreting files as not UTF8

  • b0rg_@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    here’s a little known fact about WordPad: It was Microsoft’s first word processing program. Originally introduced as an add-on to MS-DOS in 1981, WordPad later became a part of Windows in the 1990s after the release of Windows 95. It was designed to be simpler and more user-friendly than its more advanced counterpart, Microsoft Word.

    • dan@upvote.auEnglish
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      3 days ago

      WordPad didn’t exist until Windows 95. You might be thinking of Microsoft Write, which predated it.

      • ADTJ@feddit.ukEnglish
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        3 days ago

        In Windows 95, wordpad was still write.exe, is it possible they just renamed it?

        • dan@upvote.auEnglish
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          2 days ago

          Definitely possible, but I think WordPad in Windows 95 was written from scratch.

  • stoly@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Wordpad, as I recall, only existed because back in the Windows 95 days nobody had Office and couldn’t open Word documents.

    • dan@upvote.auEnglish
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      3 days ago

      WordPad in Windows 95 was a demonstration of how to use the Windows rich-text editing component. Its C++ source code came bundled with MFC (Microsoft Foundation Classes) as a sample.

      The fact that it was a useful tool for end users was essentially just a side effect.