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Microsoft retires WordPad after 28 years — app no longer available as of Windows 11 24H2
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Wordpad always seemed like an annoying and unnecessary half-step between notepad and word to me.
I liked having the minimal formatting options in WordPad without the bloat of Word.
Wordpad is also able to open large text files without having a stroke. RIP
In the nineties it produced the cleanest .rtf output of all the editors. Word makes toxic .rtf that unnecessarily turns formatting off and on at every line break and elsewhere too.
If it weren't for wordpad I wouldn't have learned how to output .rtf from my code.
RIP WordPad.