I can’t recall anymore at which point Microsoft started their efforts to make Windows the most shit as possible , intentionally. I’m not saying Wordpad is something that I use , but… why???
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Trying to push M$ office even harder, and also barely anyone uses it.
And notepad is a lot better than it used to be.
Also, calling Microsoft as M$ is pretty cringe, like, are they really any more money grabbing than Apple, Amazon or any other big tech?
I’d argue M$ has more of a monopoly rhan any other big tech company (except maybe google in search and the mobile OS ecosystem, but at least their mobile OS is FOSS, though they are working on making it worse by removing essential apps from AOSP) and Apple has other issues (A locked down ecosystem, but it doesn’t have a majority market share, luckily, or the world will be an objectively worse place)
“M$” was funny on slashdot 20 years ago but it’s a bit tired now.
No longer funny, but very much accurate
Their true business now is to rent Microsoft Office. Windows is now just a means to sell people all kinds of services.
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WordPad was always complete garbage lol, and the less preinstalled bloat the better.
It was handy to have as a simple .doc/.docx/.rtf viewer. In my previous job, some of our teams would create documentation written in .docx (eg as part of a application package), or automatic reports generated as .rtf files, and WordPad enabled us to view these docs from secure, locked down servers, without needing to install any addition software (which would increase the attack surface and add unnecessary maintenence overhead).
With MS now getting rid of WordPad, I’d imagine it’ll be a bit of a hassle - they would now have to switch to a different native file format (which would be a PITA to convert several hundreds existing files), or install a file viewer or some other app, which would add maintenance overhead.
WordPad wasn’t bloat, it was a tiny, executable which didn’t depend on any special dlls or frameworks.
You know what’s actually bloat? Candy Crush, Bing, Ads in File Explorer and all that MS Store / UWP / “Modern UI” crap that MS keeps pushing out.
We are talking about bloat on windows? Really?
Yeah, unlike the operating system I use, which I use Linux btw.
Didn’t have to wait long for you to tell us that. I also use Linux btw
One day I’m gonna fuck you all up by releasing a Linux distro called BTW.
Please do. I haven’t used Linux in years but would boot it off a USB for the lolz
All these Linux users always feel the need to mention it.
I just started using Mint btw.
I use an Endeavour OS. So technically…
I use Arch BTW
Dots or it didn’t happen
I’ve moved on from the unix ricing days, but maybe I’ll reinstall dwm or cwm
Not really
Do stop using windows if it all possible. Fuck ms.
Notepad: am ia joke to you?
That’s not a word processor, that’s a text editor
Yes, actually.
What about notepad?
That’s a text editor, not a word processor
@ijeff, the one I use most is this one right in the browser, it save locally by default in Html (also PDF and Text) and you can copy a webpage in it without loosing the UI and links. Works also great in mobile and as PWA.
All the more reason to stop using microshaft.
