• 30mag@lemmy.world
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    Microsoft announced today that it will deprecate WordPad with a future Windows update as it’s no longer under active development

    I wonder what changes they’ve made to wordpad over the last 10 years… how many people have been working on it and stuff.

    This sort of implies that Notepad is still under active development. That’s weird to think about.

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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

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        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.

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        I’d never had an issue with find and replace, but then I tend to install notepad++ straight away.

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        I am forced to use windows 11 in some capacity for work and the notepad on it is actually really nice.

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      it will deprecate WordPad with a future Windows update as it’s no longer under active development

      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.

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      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.

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      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.