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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Sheets is capable enough for the average person but a business is always going to want to use Excel because it's the industry standard.

I can't remember the last time I actually needed a spreadsheet for anything other than looking at a bunch of tabular data, but I'm a programmer so I'm not the standard spreadsheet user.

I'm a programmer so I'm not the standard spreadsheet user.

But then what do you use for database???

JSON files that get committed to a git repo, obviously. They're in a private repository in GitHub so that takes care of security and resiliency, two birds with one stone.

Gotcha, that makes sense. Thanks for your reply!