Windows will no longer have an integrated basic rich-text-based word app.
Sad to see such a great program go…
Sad but expected. Most people are using either office or one of the free alternatives by now.
Wordpad always seemed like an annoying and unnecessary half-step between notepad and word to me.
It was very niche, but it’s great for viewing docs or other light work on a system you don’t want to install a whole office suite on.
You can still do that but it’s through word webview. Some people won’t like that option.
I don’t want to install “word webview” on a server in order to look at a large log file or peruse some XML.
You don’t, it’s a browser. You shouldn’t be doing anything interacting from a server anyways.
Best Windows built-in way to open files with Unix end lines.
Microsoft’s business model has often gotten in the way of anything they do making sense.
Is there anything left to microsoft that makes sense at this point? Maybe the physical doors to the microsoft offices still function… after you watch an ad?
Can’t say I ever needed it in the 28 years I’ve been using Windows. I’m sure there are plenty who did, though.
I used it all the time to save text temporarily in. Note worked too, but i like the line break that WordPad had. It made reading and formatting easier.
Word is now so bloated that I fear using it. It’s nice to have Wordpad.
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The fox…
As if Clippy wasn’t doing that 25 years ago.
Yeah but Clippy was attractive. All those curves on display.
Now I had a mischievous long chuckle on the bus and the old ladies near me are a bit worried about me!
I liked having the minimal formatting options in WordPad without the bloat of Word.
Wordpad is also able to open large text files without having a stroke. RIP
In the nineties it produced the cleanest .rtf output of all the editors. Word makes toxic .rtf that unnecessarily turns formatting off and on at every line break and elsewhere too.
If it weren’t for wordpad I wouldn’t have learned how to output .rtf from my code.
Sometimes simple is good.
RIP WordPad.
This is my most common use. It is grrat for opening large log files on servers.
The holy spirit help you with your servers that run on windows.
I’d also suppose this update won’t affect you, cuz you’re hopefully not running latest win11 on a server.
I read that like you’re Tony the Tiger. “It is GRRRRRREAT for opening large log files.”
In other words: bloat
Rtf is far more lightweight than docx. It’s closer to markdown.
It was created for people to open Word docs at home before everyone had Office.
its pretty neat if you dont have access to word, which is likely why they want to get rid of it
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.
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.
As others have said, fast opening quick notes with basic formatting.
For example, if I get an unexpected call I need to write down more than a call back number, Wordpad was my go to.
Well, at least when back when I used Windows regularly.
Microsoft: We can’t spy on your usage when you use wordpad, use O365 instead! (guessing).
TBH, I haven’t used wordpad since Windows 98. Not saying others don’t use it, but Notepad++ and a myriad of other options are better anyway.
If they just wanted telemetry they’d just “enhance it” they way they did with the monstrosity that is new Paint or AI assisted notepad.
AI assisted Notepad is a thing?
Yeah, though I don’t know if it graduated beta, because I don’t use windows 11.
And probably as a security update as well.
Does Notepad++ allow rich text?
On a default install on NP++ you can only save as rtf, but there are addable plugins that give some rtf functionality. So as a direct answer, no, it doesn’t, but it can.
Meh. I’m not sold enough.
vim with global ls_colors and dircolors kinda user huh? Nothing wrong with that.
I don’t understand these words 😭
TBH, I haven’t used wordpad since Windows 98
which is why they’re getting rid of it
it would probably be pretty easy to just patch telemetry into it, except nobody uses it because why would you
Oh get fucked Microsoft. Now I have to use notepad when I put the tape measure on the spacebar so teams doesn’t change my status to idle.
Just select yourself to chat with in Teams (top option in contacts) and put a battery on the delete key like a professional…
I’m a frequent host and participant of a meeting for one.
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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.
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.
WordPad didn’t exist until Windows 95. You might be thinking of Microsoft Write, which predated it.
In Windows 95, wordpad was still write.exe, is it possible they just renamed it?
Definitely possible, but I think WordPad in Windows 95 was written from scratch.
Wordpad, as I recall, only existed because back in the Windows 95 days nobody had Office and couldn’t open Word documents.
people still don’t, right? I cant imagine it’s very common outside of company computers
Anyone who works for or studies at any organization has it.
They should preinstall libre office as a replacement.
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.
As long as you have notepad, you’re good.
What if I want rich text?
Markdown?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_markup_language
https://www.markdownguide.org/
https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/restructuredtext/basics.html
Any good missing?
Well and then there are interactive or side-by-side editors for most of them.
You should probably reconsider.
Have your butler do it for you
Too bad, only the poorest text for you.
*economically challenged text
Notepad++
Is this 2010?
Notepad++ is still good :p
idc what people say mswrite was always > wordpad > word
WordPad 3d
WordPad AI
Thanks for making me throw up in my mouth
chatgpt integration
WordpadGPT
Windows Copilot+ integration
Windows Recall integration
Beautiful
you no longer need to save your documents we will take screenshots of every page for you
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.
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.
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.iirc wordpad had spellcheck which was sort of convenient
And they’re making notepad pretty unusable also
I’ve had no real issuses with the new notepad.
I just hope that they don’t continue adding too much stuff to it and it becomes the new wordpad and we don’t have a basic box to put text anymore.
One of my biggest problems with the new notepad is you’ve lost using it as a forgettable scratch space. Anything you put in the new Notepad now gets written to your drive, even if you don’t save the file.
You can’t type or copy/paste anything sensitive into notepad anymore as a temporary space even if you don’t save the file.
win + R
copy it into run box
Sure, and I do that too, but that a problem: you’re limited to only a single line of text about 200 characters long
There is a setting to start with a fresh window. But rereading the text kinda concerns me. Starting a new session is when the previous one is discarded?
Here’s a great video going down to the hex level for how to extract the cleartext out of unsaved Notepad files using the temp cache files: video
I’ve used windows since the 90s. Not once have I intentionally used WordPad.
It did open by default for some file types for a long time (.doc), usually mangling the content cause it couldn’t actually handle them properly. I think it was also the default for .txt files at some point, causing many curse words when editing plain text files, that invisibly weren’t so plain any more after… Programs expecting a configuration fine really don’t like that sort of thing.
So: I’m very ok with this. Just install LibreOffice or something if you needa Word-like experience. Install notepad++ for anything “plain”.
Pfew … I moved to Linux just in time!
Gnome has already been ruined by a similar failed desire for a clean and simple interface.
Gnome has only gotten better imo
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yes, but on Linux I get to choose not to use Gnome
That was decades ago, though.
