← Back to context Comment by bondarchuk 8 hours ago That was WordPad, right? Except it also loaded instantly, probably. 3 comments bondarchuk Reply Neil44 6 hours ago Wordpad was good for some stuff, I forget what, iirc it loaded in 0.1 seconds vs 0.01 for notepad.exe toyg 5 hours ago > Wordpad was good for some stuff, I forget whatIt 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. Neil44 2 hours ago 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...
Neil44 6 hours ago Wordpad was good for some stuff, I forget what, iirc it loaded in 0.1 seconds vs 0.01 for notepad.exe toyg 5 hours ago > Wordpad was good for some stuff, I forget whatIt 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. Neil44 2 hours ago 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...
toyg 5 hours ago > Wordpad was good for some stuff, I forget whatIt 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. Neil44 2 hours ago 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...
Neil44 2 hours ago 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...
Wordpad was good for some stuff, I forget what, iirc it loaded in 0.1 seconds vs 0.01 for notepad.exe
> 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.
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...