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Am completely expecting this to be due to falling office sales or fear that people will realize they don't need expensive Office every few years when WordPad has 90% of functionality for daily use.
I expect this will make a lot of people very angry since I know many users of WordPad.
I am one of those users. I use wordpad for prepping my DnD games. MS Office is beyond bloated and slows my pc to a crawl when it's open. Same with Open Office and LibreOffice if I'm honest. Both hog too many resources.
Guess I'm moving over to Obsidian full time.
Have you ever tried abiword? It's really lightweight.
I have not. Haven't even heard of it. But I will be looking into it. Thank you!