Microsoft announced today that it will deprecate WordPad with a future Windows update as it's no longer under active development, though the company did not specify the precise timing of this change.
Am completely expecting this to be due to falling office sales or fear that people will realize they don’t need expensive Office every few years when WordPad has 90% of functionality for daily use.
I expect this will make a lot of people very angry since I know many users of WordPad.
I personally like the look and feel of FreeOffice better. Fairly enough, I haven’t used Libre in many years, but it always felt kind of clunky and when I tried Free it was very comfortable and familiar to use, as a lifetime Word-er.
I am one of those users. I use wordpad for prepping my DnD games. MS Office is beyond bloated and slows my pc to a crawl when it’s open. Same with Open Office and LibreOffice if I’m honest. Both hog too many resources.
They changed their licensing and specifically for robot users so I suspect it’s to funnel those users into licenses which is a lot more than consumers.
Am completely expecting this to be due to falling office sales or fear that people will realize they don’t need expensive Office every few years when WordPad has 90% of functionality for daily use.
I expect this will make a lot of people very angry since I know many users of WordPad.
LibreOffice is what those people need.
I personally like the look and feel of FreeOffice better. Fairly enough, I haven’t used Libre in many years, but it always felt kind of clunky and when I tried Free it was very comfortable and familiar to use, as a lifetime Word-er.
LibreOffice is where it’s at, for sure.
I actually very much doubt wordpad has hurt office sales.
Seriously. It’s insane to think this is a move to increase office market share
I dont think I know any person who uses Wordpad. Most probably dont even know that it exists, hidden away somewhere in the starting menu…
People still sleep on Excel. Nothing else touches it, and your finance department would riot if IT tried any of its “replacements.”
I am one of those users. I use wordpad for prepping my DnD games. MS Office is beyond bloated and slows my pc to a crawl when it’s open. Same with Open Office and LibreOffice if I’m honest. Both hog too many resources.
Guess I’m moving over to Obsidian full time.
Notepad++ is also pretty nice
But it doesn’t do what WordPad does.
Sounds like you need a new pc…
True but I also need food more.
Have you ever tried abiword? It’s really lightweight.
I have not. Haven’t even heard of it. But I will be looking into it. Thank you!
If you think WordPad is a replacement for Ms word then the reality is that you don’t do anything that requires word/write.
And I am assuming you just mean word and not excel or PowerPoint because… Yeah
Wordpad has been obsolete since you could open files bigger than 64KB in Notepad. It’s useful for almost nothing.
It’s not like your can’t just install LibreOffice or use Google Docs and be done with it.
They changed their licensing and specifically for robot users so I suspect it’s to funnel those users into licenses which is a lot more than consumers.