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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Microsoft announced today that it will deprecate WordPad with a future Windows update as it's no longer under active development

I wonder what changes they've made to wordpad over the last 10 years... how many people have been working on it and stuff.

This sort of implies that Notepad is still under active development. That's weird to think about.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Notepad is, in fact, under active development. They recently upgraded find and replace so it works 90% of the time instead of 30% and added some annoying restore session by default feature. not to mention tabs

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I hadn't noticed tabs! I'll have to check that shit out!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I interviewed at Microsoft decades ago and found a bug in notepad during my interview when they gave me a laptop and asked me how I would test notepad.

Their faces indicated that this was not supposed to be a productive exercise.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

did you get the job?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I'd never had an issue with find and replace, but then I tend to install notepad++ straight away.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I am forced to use windows 11 in some capacity for work and the notepad on it is actually really nice.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

it will deprecate WordPad with a future Windows update as it’s no longer under active development

It doesn't need "active development" because it is perfect the way it is. Unix/Linux has tons of useful programs that haven't been in active development for 40-50 years.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Notepad is just a barebones text editor. I doubt there were any substantial changes since Windows 95, other than ensuring it runs on a 32 and later 64 bit infrastructure, and the menu works with newer releases. That sounds like a 1h per quarter job at most.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Windows 11 notepad is wildly different than what we've known with good ol pre-11 notepad.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah, interesting. I'm still on 10.

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

11 sucks but notepad and explorer are pretty nice.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I haven't been using Wordpad for 20+ years. Notepad could do everything it does already. Then, you also have Firefox's built-in inspect to tinker with code on the fly.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Word pad is a rich text editor.