Microsoft Kills Wordpad

In this video I discuss how Microsoft is killing off wordpad to try and force people into buying Microsoft office in order to edit documents on windows. Don't do this, install libreoffice writer instead.

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[cjaymeme]

I really don't know how someone can edit simple text documents without a subscription-based software license and a constant internet connection that definitely isn't used to spy on you. If it didn't benefit us, why would Microsoft want us to use Office so bad?

[apairrofscissors]

Wordpad has been deprecated in favour of Candy Shadow Legends of Crush.

[ZaneEckols]

Microsoft Word should just be free to use on Windows if they're seriously going through with this. I don't understand why something so basic and fundamental to using a computer should be behind a paywall in the first place.

[AshnSilvercorp]

the monstrous amount of money Microsoft makes from selling people a minimally updated text program that still has the same oddball quirks since 2007 is baffling.
Billy G is a genius at legally swindling...

[IshayuG]

Fun fact: .docx is a zip file containing a very precisely laid out set of text files that are actually XML files, and you can find the document's text in there. If you just want to read a standard word text file, you don't actually need Office. ;'D

[tankfire]

You can't just write a simple document.

You need to be connected to the internet,
you need a paid subscription,
you need Windows operating system,
you need Microsoft net framework,
directx 15,
a mouse,
keyboard,
8 gigabytes of ram,
4 gigabytes of video memory,
discrete graphics card,
a 10 gigabit speed ssd,
latest windows update,
a password,
an email,
a phone with a working phone number,
a phone subscription,
quad core processor 64bit.


Just to write a word document.

Edit: Didn't expect this to blow up. Yes the actual issue is more complicated then this and there are free alternatives. My point is that in modern times; to write a simple document there's many things required now that were not required in the past.

[forsakenquery]

Without word pad windows has no native way to read rtf files. This sucks

[sbritorodr]

Windows in the 2020s is a joke. They started adding more and more stupid features no one asked for and now it's removing essential and basic stuff just because. Personally I still have W10 and it's barebones for me: no cortana, no news shit, no stupid bg processes, no edge, no mail app. And I still didn't abandon W10 because of gaming, because I would switch completely to Linux a while back.

On the other hand I could understand Wordpad deprecration in some aspects. txt are eddited with notepad exclusively and the other text formats are already being edited on MS Office or LibreOffice depending on the user preferences, but still feel they could just ship a lite version of MS Word instead to give at least some basic functionality to Windows without installing shit.

[hunterrules_o]

Its over. Windows has fallen. Billons must switch

[beskamir]

Can confirm. Games are the only reason I'm still using windows. Without that I'd have long since switched to linux.

[SIGNABLE]

I love how windows technically is Linux's advertiser now.

[aetherton]

8:55, Your description of Microsoft creating a proprietary file extension format, finding a way to monopolize it as the standard across the board, and then shove everyone into the boat to pay money for it; REALLY reminds me of Cory Doctorow's DEFCON speech of "Enshittification".

[haomingli]

Many professions require the use of proprietary software that only runs on Windows. There is no fundamental reason why they must run on Windows, but that is the status quo, just like gaming. It is in this way that Windows is considered the OS that is most suited to productivity: it is viable in the greatest number of professions.

[towellight]

I use notepad, can't recall the last time I used wordpad. I would use openoffice before using wordpad. I've got three notepad files open atm.

[DestroyerMariko]

They're also ending the Mail app and trying to make everyone switch to Outlook which constantly shows an ad in the first email slot and mucks around how it works in a way that (last I checked) can't be customised. Confused the heck outta my mum when they pushed her onto it until I found the button to change back. It's bad enough trying to turn everything into an ad/subscription service, but forcing it onto people without asking first???

[lythd]

ive used wordpad since i was young and on my moms computer typing my autistic ramblings of a story, it has a special place in my heart and is still what i use when im on windows as i refuse to use word [refusal to use microsoft office was something ive always had just because it annoyed me when they had licensing stuff i just wanna type goddamit]. seeing "will be removed in a future version of windows" is heartbreaking, though im sure it will still be available for download on the web for windows if i ever need it.

[negirno]

Wordpad was introduced with Windows 95, replacing Microsoft Write, both of them were for the purpose of handling rich-text documents at a basic level and be a gateway for Word, while offering some Word document compatibility for people like young Mental Outlaw.

Interestingly, software pirates also liked it because it also could open regular text files, but unlike Notepad, it displayed them in a monospace font out of the box, so they opened .nfo files with it, at least in the early 2000s. I bet they use Notepad++ nowadays...

[christosbinos]

This is likely a move in context of push toward subscription models. Wordpad was a viable alternative to word in certain limited contexts. I can 100% imagine a free windows 12 (with added telemetry, especially with the move away from cookies) and having a premium subscription for office + AI co-pilot features

[wailfulcrab]

Let's not forget MS silently deprecated stock Calendar and Mail app to replace it for Outlook, just to display ads in it.

[Rickyp]

My story is a lot like yours! When we started typing assignments in middle school, I used WordPad. I think I had heard of Word, and when I searched for Word on my computer, WordPad also came up. It didn't tell me I had to activate it the way Word did, so I used it! Having software to write and print rich text documents preinstalled on the machine and simple enough for a child to find and use was so great and it's a damn shame they're taking it away for essentially no reason.

FYI I just checked--WordPad DOES allow insertion of images!