No wtf microsoft!!
At least there's Notepad++. An absolute end of an era.
Wordpad is the rich text editor, it's not notepad
I get it. MS has a “free” rich text editor, it’s Word online. You can easily install any other simple rich text editor (is abiword still a thing?) on Windows. Wordpad probably has minimal usage.
A good alternative is abiword. Don't know if it exists on Windows tho.
You can add it back to the library from an older edition, and it will run fine if you want it badly enough.
Install Linux, use whatever the hell you like
how will I read the instructions a vendor sent me for a windows server that is a word doc because who knows? Oh no... Anyway
I can see truth to either position presented in these comments, but I don't like being a fence sitter. That being said, I would think making it available but not mandatory would satisfy both opinions, right? Making it unavailable altogether is a move that seems to have an ulterior motive.
Not trying to defend Microsoft, but making it available to the fraction of a fraction that would actually download it is probably not worth it because you still would have to maintain it, making sure it's compatible with new windows versions and providing security updates.
It's a lot easier to just kill it outright, and those that do actually really really want it can find some third party who has uploaded a version of the exe file somewhere.
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