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dantheclamman@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

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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dantheclamman@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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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.”

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      Web-based Word is free.

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        But it’s shit.

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

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          And you must create a Microsoft account

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          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.

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          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.

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        Wh… No it isn’t.

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          Is sure is.

          The Android and iOS apps are free as well.

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

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

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