RIP Microsoft WordPad. You Will Be Missed

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RIP Microsoft WordPad. You Will Be Missed
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RIP Microsoft WordPad. You Will Be Missed::It's truly the end of an era as we say farewell to a real one.

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Yeah, "becoming" is a strange choice of wording.... Word has been bloated and overkill for 2 decades at this point.

Libre Office is still bulky for anything I want on my PC. If I'm going to do any serious writing, I'm using Google Docs for backups and such. If I'm doing quick txt edits I'm using Sublime or Notepad. I use wordpad for stuff in the middle so I will definitely miss it and not sure how to solve this problem.

That said, I'm not fucking installing Win 11 so guess this isn't a problem till 12.

I must admit, I really enjoyed fucking around in M$ Office 2003 (PowerPoint, FrontPage and more) as a kid — we made our own fictional "OS" Desktop Environments in PowerPoint, copying text boxes, drop-down menus etc. from FrontPage. It had a lot of new features that Office XP didn't have, which made our projects much cooler. It was like the best of both worlds, since it had a somewhat classic UI but also added features we found interesting for our weird niche usecase. Since Office 2003, it's only been getting worse, IMO.

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