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Microsoft retires WordPad after 28 years — app no longer available as of Windows 11 24H2
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this post was submitted on 02 Oct 2024
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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.
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.
Ideally no but in the real world it happens, especially with with Windows Servers.