Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years

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Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years
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As long as they stay the fuck away from notepad

Lol almost the same software since windows 1

Simply no. They modernized it in Windows 11 and made it do the expensive mica stuff have fonts and tabs and some awful "restore session" feature

N.B. Notepad3 (originally Flo's notepad2) is a great drop-in replacement for notepad.exe (and even has an install option to do exactly that, so everything opens with it even if other programs call it). I install it on every Win system I have to manage. Not as big as Notepad++, but has syntax highlighting, line numbers and supports LF file endings.

EDIT: Disappointingly no screenshots on either site >:| It looks similar to vanilla notepad.exe

Yea even with notepad++ on my machine I found myself using notepad for tons of shit while notepadd++ is better for logs and making scripts