[HN Gopher] WordPad will be removed in a future release of Windows
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       WordPad will be removed in a future release of Windows
        
       Author : tech234a
       Score  : 23 points
       Date   : 2023-09-02 19:12 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | not_your_vase wrote:
       | I'm always sad to see applications go (especially if the
       | recommended alternative is a paid software), but did that thing
       | ever work properly? In the past decade I used Windows only when
       | someone held a gun to my head, but before that I remember that
       | WordPad always messed up all documents I have ever opened: weird
       | page and line breaks, picture and textbox formatting all over the
       | place, and saving a document was a good way to prevent future
       | reading.
        
         | davnn wrote:
         | Nobody uses WordPad, nobody wants to improve WordPad, WordPad
         | will be sunset.
        
         | smackeyacky wrote:
         | I always figured this was by design. Microsoft needed a GUI
         | word processor that was free to stifle competition in the new
         | "windows software" market, but not good enough to upset their
         | Word business.
         | 
         | Good job WordPad - one of the flag bearers of Microsofts anti-
         | competitive business practices.
        
       | spread_love wrote:
       | > we recommend Microsoft Word
       | 
       | Which now costs $159.99?!
        
         | CSSer wrote:
         | Of course. Breaking every tracking script that marketers try to
         | share is hard work! And you laugh now, but wait until they roll
         | out Clippy GPT-4 edition.
        
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