Windows will no longer have an integrated basic rich-text-based word app.
As long as you have notepad, you’re good.
Notepad++
Is this 2010?
Notepad++ is still good :p
And so the bloodline of windows write is extinguished
This is kinda sad that if you want to do even basic word processing with Microsoft software, your only option now is an ongoing subscription to do so.
…your only option now is an ongoing subscription to do so.
You can also still buy the Office package without subscription. The latest release is from 2024 and 2021 before that. But of course its expensive for basic stuff.
Oh I didn’t actually realise that, I thought they’d just gone full Adobe with office 365
Sad but expected. Most people are using either office or one of the free alternatives by now.
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.
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.
Sad to see such a great program go…
Still on the last windows os am ever gonna use windows 10
Word pad the goat of somehow interpreting files as not UTF8
What, they couldn’t add AI to it?
You wouldn’t add AI to a hand bag?! You wouldn’t add AI to a car?! You wouldn’t add AI to a baby?! You wouldn’t shoot a police man?! … and then steal his helmet?! … and then add AI to it?!
I hope it’s still included on future Windows server versions. It’s quite useful to open documentation or instructions included with some software.
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.
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.
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.
Notepad ++ is one of the first things I install on any windows system
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.
idc what people say mswrite was always > wordpad > word
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.
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 onto.
I liked having the minimal formatting options in WordPad without the bloat of Word.
Word is now so bloated that I fear using it. It’s nice to have Wordpad.
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.
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.
its pretty neat if you dont have access to word, which is likely why they want to get rid of it
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?
Rtf is far more lightweight than docx. It’s closer to markdown.
Best Windows built-in way to open files with Unix end lines.
In other words: bloat
Pfew … I moved to Linux just in time!
Gnome has already been ruined by a similar failed desire for a clean and simple interface.
That was decades ago, though.
Yes, but on Linux I get to choose not to use Gnome
Now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time… A long time.
