Microsoft announced today that it will deprecate WordPad with a future Windows update as it's no longer under active development, though the company did not specify the precise timing of this change.
    • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      Ms love legacy backwards compatibility. But now that 365 has been around for a decade and you get word free with any Hotmail or live email address there is no need for wordpad.

      • Bleeping Lobster@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        10 months ago

        you get word free with any Hotmail

        Wait, really? Or do you just mean that a hotmail email writing space has all the same functionality as word?

        I’ll personally be sad to see WP go, I use it a lot because I don’t want MS Office janking up my machine, and the free alts also seem to use a bewildering amount of my PCs power.

        • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          10 months ago

          If you log into a Hotmail or Live account you can press the 9 dots in the top left and open word in your browser