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Re:Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years by lockhouse on Saturday September 02, 2023 @07:12PM (#37366282)
It’s actually likely to be the opposite. WordPad could be a test application for the RichTextEdit widget.
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Re:Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years by canucker2016 on Saturday September 02, 2023 @09:20PM (#37366901)
No. The RichText control was written for the Win95/Exchange email client.

Since there was now a RichText control that supported RTF in Windows, the Windows group could write a thin wrapper around the RichText control and replace Microsoft Write with Microsoft WordPad.

Support for Microsoft Word file formats came later once the Word group took over responsibility for the RichText control code.

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Re:Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years by profile53 on Monday September 04, 2023 @10:34PM (#37387229)
Man… the backstory behind anything in windows is always some insane mishmash of backwards compatibility, repurposed tooling, and other assorted insanity.
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