dantheclamman@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoMicrosoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 yearswww.bleepingcomputer.comexternal-linkmessage-square469fedilinkarrow-up11.1Karrow-down124cross-posted to: sysadmin@lemmy.worldtaqueros@mujico.orghackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fanshackernews@derp.footech@pawb.social
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minus-squareM0oP0o@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down4·10 months agoYes, I would say notepad would be the bigger loss. But wordpad is still the default for people before they learn about things like notepad++
minus-squaresloonark@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down2·10 months agoNotepad is the default text editor on Windows. I’d be surprised if most people even knew WordPad existed.
minus-squareM0oP0o@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·10 months agoInterestingly enough I have seen a lot of new PCs that have Wordpad as default (mostly dells and some HPs).
minus-squaremacrocephalic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·10 months agoI have seen that too and the first thing you do is change it to notepad as wordpad isn’t good for text files
Yes, I would say notepad would be the bigger loss. But wordpad is still the default for people before they learn about things like notepad++
Notepad is the default text editor on Windows. I’d be surprised if most people even knew WordPad existed.
Interestingly enough I have seen a lot of new PCs that have Wordpad as default (mostly dells and some HPs).
I have seen that too and the first thing you do is change it to notepad as wordpad isn’t good for text files