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Re:Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with acc... by toyg on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @08:56AM (#45966009)
> Wordpad was good for some stuff, I forget what

It was a proper WYSIWYG editor working with rich text, effectively a poor man's Word.

Microsoft should have turned it into a markdown editor, instead of killing it.

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Re:Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with acc... by Neil44 on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @11:35AM (#45968522)
It was, and worked well with rtf. I vaguely recall it being better than notepad if you were for example looking at strings in binary files, something like that, I forget...
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Re:Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with acc... by vrighter on Friday November 21, 2025 @09:16AM (#46004841)
I often used it to convert unix style line endings to windows. Notepad choked on those, wordpad could load them easily, and just resaving them as a txt file converted them to windows line endings.
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