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minus-squareares35@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up44arrow-down8·1 year agomeanwhile, wordpad… probably used by more people over the age of seven than paint is, getting axed. microsoft has office subs to sell, but they do not have a photoshop or gimp or even a paint.net alternative to sell.
minus-squareMrLuemasG@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34arrow-down1·1 year agoI’ve literally never met anybody that used Wordpad, whereas I know a lot of tech normies that’ll use MS Paint for quick memes and things
minus-squarekaesaecracker@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoThey created WordPad because of antitrust issues and never changed it. Try opening a Word document created by a recent version, it’s pretty useless today. Notepad rules though, it even got UTF8 support recently-ish! /s
minus-squareAndreTelevise@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoI think they’re just pushing people to use OneNote (which is free).
minus-squaretheRealBassist@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoFree with lots of features stripped out
minus-squareAndreTelevise@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoHonestly not that bad if I want to use it for notetaking. But not as full-featured.
minus-squaretheRealBassist@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoYea that’s totally fair. I’m just bitter cuz it makes running my D&D sessions harder lol
meanwhile, wordpad… probably used by more people over the age of seven than paint is, getting axed.
microsoft has office subs to sell, but they do not have a photoshop or gimp or even a paint.net alternative to sell.
I’ve literally never met anybody that used Wordpad, whereas I know a lot of tech normies that’ll use MS Paint for quick memes and things
They created WordPad because of antitrust issues and never changed it. Try opening a Word document created by a recent version, it’s pretty useless today.
Notepad rules though, it even got UTF8 support recently-ish! /s
I think they’re just pushing people to use OneNote (which is free).
Free with lots of features stripped out
Honestly not that bad if I want to use it for notetaking. But not as full-featured.
Yea that’s totally fair. I’m just bitter cuz it makes running my D&D sessions harder lol