News Microsoft retires WordPad after 28 years — app no longer available as of Windows 11 24H2

[Admin]

The Windows 11 24H2 rollout formally removes support for Wordpad as Microsoft formally adds in its deprecated feature, ending its 28 years of product lifespan.

Microsoft retires WordPad after 28 years — app no longer available as of Windows 11 24H2 : Read more

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Why can't MS make WordPad Open Source and let people fork off of it?

They don't want it anymore, let the Open Source community have a crack at improving it.

 

[Dr3ams]

LibreOffice it's opensource and completely free.

 

[artk2219]

Getting rid of control panel would make changing some settings super annoying. I get that you can do most things through settings but sometimes it take more steps or its a pain to get to compared to just getting to what you need to change in control panel.

 

[ThomasKinsley]

LibreOffice it's opensource and completely free.

And Open Office. It would be good for the community to have two open source suites so there is healthy competition.

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

Which in 2024 is not a big deal. There's LibreOffice and OpenOffice, and online Microsoft Word, as well Google Docs, are free as well.

And yes, while older doesn't mean it's no longer useful, between the available free options which are far more fully featured than Wordpad, I'd say Wordpad has outlived its usefulness.

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/get-microsoft-office-free-or-cheap,6348.htm

 

[Dr3ams]

And Open Office. It would be good for the community to have two open source suites so there is healthy competition.

LibreOffice is the successor project to OpenOffice. And you're right opensource competition is the path to better software.

 

[Sam Hobbs]

Why can't MS make WordPad Open Source and let people fork off of it?

They don't want it anymore, let the Open Source community have a crack at improving it.

You are assuming they have not. Your assumption is invalid.

 

[Sam Hobbs]

LibreOffice it's opensource and completely free.

And WordPad. The source code has always been available.