Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years
Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years
![[HN] Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows](https://radiation.party/pictrs/image/137816ff-4448-42dc-8ece-1eaf066b86d3.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=196)
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"No one's paying for Microsoft Word, that thing that used to be free so... We gotta kill this so people too fucking stupid to use Libre Office get on board."
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Web-based Word is free.
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But it's shit.
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And you must create a Microsoft account
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Yeah, every time I've used word online it seems to find a new way to completely fuck up the document
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Yeah, it's kind of point. It shouldn't have to be but just like Apple, make the non-payed version unnecessarily shit, artificially limited and constrained so people pay for the premium tier.
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It works well for basic stuff that a free user might want to use it for. I prefer it to Google Docs by a wide margin.
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Wh... No it isn't.
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The Android and iOS apps are free as well.
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Lol, you think MS is doing this to cash in on the huge Wordpad market?
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They're doing it because why support the free word processor when they could just support the non-free one?
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