News Saying Goodbye to WordPad: Windows' Staple for 28 Years Gets the Chop

[Admin]

WordPad has been a Windows staple since the days of Windows 95. Now Microsoft says you should use Word or Notepad instead.

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[Sluggotg]

I love Word Pad. Bummer!
I need to get something different. Is Open Office the way to go?

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

Honestly, I'm surprised they kept it around with Windows 11 since web-based Office (and Google alternatives) have been around and free for years, and offline Office 2019/2021/2023 can be gotten for under $50, in addition to the free suites.

 

[digitalgriffin]

Libre office it is.

At my last job, we had report templates generated on rtf. We could only use wordpad because word generated over 3 times the file size crashing the parser.

 

[Microcoz]

well they already screwed it up so why not. Who wants light weight programs that use no resources and open in an instant. Who wants to be able to temporarily change a Windows setting and leave that settings page open while you change another.

 

[stonecarver]

I've got my copy of the off line installer in a zip and .exe. The only time I need it is when going into a game file to change maybe an older games resolution or a mod, fix fps, unlock fps, fix textures you name it, to make game play on Windows 10/11.

Note pad works but you will get sometimes when you open a game file you get jibberish. Yeah gonna hold onto a copy for my future self when that time does come. She had a good run.

 

[AgentBirdnest]

Wait, what!? Noooooooo!! Seriously, I use it almost daily. I use Notepad and Libre Office as well, for different purposes, but the middle-ground WordPad is my favorite for throwing together a quick doc to print. :-(

 

[Grobe]

If you have a very strict environoment where policy is that absolutely no aditional software is allowed, Wordpad can be pretty useful because that's the only way to import/export rich test and text+images. So if this also affect Windows server OS, it is not a good decision.

 

[hotaru251]

Hopefully some fan of it makes a fork of it.

MS really needs stop killing off stuff ppl like.

 

[Exploding PSU]

Isn't Wordpad the original "write.exe"? That program's ancient.

 

[kerberos_20]

Isn't Wordpad the original "write.exe"? That program's ancient.

yup, it was there before win95, just named differently,altho write couldnt work with word documents meanwhile wordpad could

 

[Robert Gonzalez]

Wordpad is an applet and it will continue to work, just copy it from system32 and hold onto it.

 

[lemongrassgarlic]

^ in W11 , it is in : C:\Program Files\Windows NT\Accessories . So copy that so MS don't take it away in a future update ?
I use it a lot. Quick , easy , small file.
It's like shutting down WORKS . It was better , easier than MS office.

 

[poodie13]

I love Word Pad. Bummer!
I need to get something different. Is Open Office the way to go?

Recommend - Libre Office