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Microsoft retires WordPad after 28 years — app no longer available as of Windows 11 24H2 (www.tomshardware.com)

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Windows will no longer have an integrated basic rich-text-based word app.

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[–] b0rg_@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

here's a little known fact about WordPad: It was Microsoft's first word processing program. Originally introduced as an add-on to MS-DOS in 1981, WordPad later became a part of Windows in the 1990s after the release of Windows 95. It was designed to be simpler and more user-friendly than its more advanced counterpart, Microsoft Word.

[–] dan@upvote.au 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

WordPad didn't exist until Windows 95. You might be thinking of Microsoft Write, which predated it.

[–] ADTJ@feddit.uk 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In Windows 95, wordpad was still write.exe, is it possible they just renamed it?

[–] dan@upvote.au 2 points 22 hours ago

Definitely possible, but I think WordPad in Windows 95 was written from scratch.