Another one bites the dust: Microsoft buries WordPad, but there is an afterlife (www.notebookcheck.net)
from mrddu3at2@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.ml on 09 Oct 2024 02:34
https://lemmy.world/post/20654251

“WordPad users who want to keep using it after updating to Windows 11 24H2 can do so by simply saving Wordpad.exe, wordpadfilter.dll, and write.exe. The first two are located in the C:\Program Files\Windows NT\Accessories folder, while the last can be found in C:\Windows.”

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cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de on 09 Oct 2024 06:53 collapse

Does anyone still use it? I just use markdown if I want basic formatting, otherwise I use Libreoffice.

theshatterstone54@feddit.uk on 09 Oct 2024 09:31 next collapse

They have to kill it. Otherwise, some “cheapskate” might decide they don’t need to pay for MS Word, or get spied on by having all their data in the cloud using MS Office Online.

Or they just think there’s no reason to keep it around.

waspentalive@lemmy.one on 10 Oct 2024 02:27 collapse

Reminder - Libra Office also works in Windows. So does Open Office.

dan1101@lemm.ee on 09 Oct 2024 12:29 next collapse

I use it to maintain a simple readme.doc for my Windows software. The logic was it should look the same to anyone with Windows even if they don’t have Word or OpenOffice.

Mike1576218@lemmy.ml on 11 Oct 2024 21:39 collapse

I know million dollar machines that ship without MS office, but with Openoffice (!). The problem is, the Software can copy graphs to the clipboard in WMF (or something like that) that neither the super old Openoffice nor a recent Libreoffice can import. So wordpad is the only ootb software able to use the data.

Their reason is that 90% of their customers have an office subscription anyways…