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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"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."

Web-based Word is free.

But it's shit.

Yeah, every time I've used word online it seems to find a new way to completely fuck up the document

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.

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.

Lol, you think MS is doing this to cash in on the huge Wordpad market?

They're doing it because why support the free word processor when they could just support the non-free one?