WordPad got into the shadow of MS Office and Notepad anyways.
This development aligns with Microsoft’s ongoing initiative to streamline its software offerings and concentrate on more sophisticated applications.
Gross corpospeak. Translated as “We never invested in this because we want you to buy the paid version. Now that the paid version has completely eclipsed the free version we will be deprecating it”
Alternatively: “Not enough people cared to use this stuff, so we’ll shift our efforts towards stuff that our users care more about”.
Agreed on the corpospeak, though.
How would you prefer they say it? Unless you mean to say they’re not within their rights to stop giving away a product?
They were never giving it away. They included wordpad with your purchase of windows. They no longer do. I don’t think anyone is saying that windows is not “within their rights”, they’re saying that this degrades the product we already pay for. That is worth complaining about, even if our ultimate recourse primarily ends up being to find an OS that better serves our needs.
Honestly though I’m struggling to understand why you’d think that’s about Microsoft’s rights to begin with??
Spread the word of libreoffice for those who don’t want the ms office subscription
