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Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year ago

For the first time in 40 years, Windows will ship without built-in word processor

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For the first time in 40 years, Windows will ship without built-in word processor

arstechnica.com

Pete Hahnloser@beehaw.org to

Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year ago

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WordPad is one of the few built-in apps not to be updated in Windows 11.

Thus ending our long national nightmare of accidentally opening things in WordPad on a fresh install.

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Notepad got unix line ending support a while back. It doesn’t do weird old macOS line endings (\r only) but Unix line endings work these days.

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