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Microsoft WordPad

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Photo: HJBC (Shutterstock)

Microsoft decided to send WordPad to the trash bin after close to three decades as Windows’ easy, breezy text software. Though it wasn’t until September that Microsoft called it quits on its simplified text app, the company had already made it an optional feature as of 2020, instead trying to angle users toward Word for .docs or NotePad for .txt files.