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[–] MeanEYE@lemmy.world 50 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Am completely expecting this to be due to falling office sales or fear that people will realize they don't need expensive Office every few years when WordPad has 90% of functionality for daily use.

I expect this will make a lot of people very angry since I know many users of WordPad.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

LibreOffice is what those people need.

[–] Classy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

I personally like the look and feel of FreeOffice better. Fairly enough, I haven't used Libre in many years, but it always felt kind of clunky and when I tried Free it was very comfortable and familiar to use, as a lifetime Word-er.

[–] Fishshake@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

LibreOffice is where it's at, for sure.

[–] ebits21@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I actually very much doubt wordpad has hurt office sales.

[–] uberkalden@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Seriously. It's insane to think this is a move to increase office market share

[–] Microw@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

I dont think I know any person who uses Wordpad. Most probably dont even know that it exists, hidden away somewhere in the starting menu...

[–] Banzai51@midwest.social 11 points 1 year ago

People still sleep on Excel. Nothing else touches it, and your finance department would riot if IT tried any of its "replacements."

[–] Stamets@startrek.website 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I am one of those users. I use wordpad for prepping my DnD games. MS Office is beyond bloated and slows my pc to a crawl when it's open. Same with Open Office and LibreOffice if I'm honest. Both hog too many resources.

Guess I'm moving over to Obsidian full time.

[–] DaTingGoBrrr@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Notepad++ is also pretty nice

[–] Aux@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

But it doesn't do what WordPad does.

[–] ebits21@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds like you need a new pc…

[–] Stamets@startrek.website 13 points 1 year ago

True but I also need food more.

[–] fulano@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you ever tried abiword? It's really lightweight.

[–] Stamets@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

I have not. Haven't even heard of it. But I will be looking into it. Thank you!

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago

Wordpad has been obsolete since you could open files bigger than 64KB in Notepad. It's useful for almost nothing.

It's not like your can't just install LibreOffice or use Google Docs and be done with it.

[–] AustralianSimon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They changed their licensing and specifically for robot users so I suspect it's to funnel those users into licenses which is a lot more than consumers.