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RIP, WordPad(www.thurrott.com)

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AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
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Did anybody ever use it?

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linearchaos@lemmy.world
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It was nice that it was there by default. Before cloud word processors it was useful if you were maintaining a bunch of windows servers and wanted some clean looking playbooks.

No ones shedding any tears though I think.

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LCP@lemmy.world
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F

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Wooshock@lemmy.world
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I see this being treated as good news, and in some ways it is a relief to not see RTF files anymore, but the fact that the most popular operating system in the world now no longer has a free word processor included isn’t great when you consider that Microsoft Word is a separate expense. They could have done the work to make a better free word processor but they decided to just scrap it instead. That is some Google shit.

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