Windows will no longer have an integrated basic rich-text-based word app.

  • b0rg_@lemmy.world
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    29 days ago

    here’s a little known fact about WordPad: It was Microsoft’s first word processing program. Originally introduced as an add-on to MS-DOS in 1981, WordPad later became a part of Windows in the 1990s after the release of Windows 95. It was designed to be simpler and more user-friendly than its more advanced counterpart, Microsoft Word.

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      29 days ago

      WordPad didn’t exist until Windows 95. You might be thinking of Microsoft Write, which predated it.

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        29 days ago

        In Windows 95, wordpad was still write.exe, is it possible they just renamed it?

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          Definitely possible, but I think WordPad in Windows 95 was written from scratch.