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Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years
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Notepad is, in fact, under active development. They recently upgraded find and replace so it works 90% of the time instead of 30% and added some annoying restore session by default feature. not to mention tabs
I'd never had an issue with find and replace, but then I tend to install notepad++ straight away.
I interviewed at Microsoft decades ago and found a bug in notepad during my interview when they gave me a laptop and asked me how I would test notepad.
Their faces indicated that this was not supposed to be a productive exercise.
did you get the job?
It doesn't need "active development" because it is perfect the way it is. Unix/Linux has tons of useful programs that haven't been in active development for 40-50 years.
Notepad is just a barebones text editor. I doubt there were any substantial changes since Windows 95, other than ensuring it runs on a 32 and later 64 bit infrastructure, and the menu works with newer releases. That sounds like a 1h per quarter job at most.
I haven't been using Wordpad for 20+ years. Notepad could do everything it does already. Then, you also have Firefox's built-in inspect to tinker with code on the fly.
Word pad is a rich text editor.