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

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[–] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 11 points 1 month ago

Sad to see such a great program go…

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

More brilliant decisions from Satya Nadella. 🙄

It is an obvious maneuver, to be fair to Nadella. Not only will this push more over to subscription based word processing, but it also closes one of the easier avenues useds have to avoid aggregated data farming. Their next move should be to turn Notepad into a complementary tiered program:
Tier 1) Use at no charge, but your data pays for it instead.
Tier 2) Notepad becomes an extra pay to unlock feature of 365.

[–] Toes@ani.social 8 points 1 month ago

Sad but expected. Most people are using either office or one of the free alternatives by now.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 month ago

idc what people say mswrite was always > wordpad > word

[–] KonalaKoala@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wonder if anyone thought about looking up WordPal in the Microsoft Store and think about maybe that could be what it evolved into.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

Problem is, it's not installed by default

[–] Enzy@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago

Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time... A long time.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I hope it's still included on future Windows server versions. It's quite useful to open documentation or instructions included with some software.

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