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Microsoft retires WordPad after 28 years — app no longer available as of Windows 11 24H2 (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Windows will no longer have an integrated basic rich-text-based word app.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Does Notepad++ allow rich text?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

On a default install on NP++ you can only save as rtf, but there are addable plugins that give some rtf functionality. So as a direct answer, no, it doesn't, but it can.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Meh. I'm not sold enough.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

vim with global ls_colors and dircolors kinda user huh? Nothing wrong with that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I don't understand these words 😭