Microsoft announced today that it will deprecate WordPad with a future Windows update as it's no longer under active development, though the company did not specify the precise timing of this change.
LibreOffice can read and export to Microsoft Office formats. So there’s really no reason to pirate Microsoft Office even if you technically need it for a job (and if the IT guy complains about “non-standard software”, threaten to get him written up by HR for wasting company hours complaining instead of actually doing his job).
Except for those cases where it can’t. There’s always some small, but important, discrepancies. Never have I been able to actually use Libre Writer instead of Word when another party is using Word - same goes for Calc and Excel, sadly. Excel is an absolute UX nightmare for me and I violently hate using it.
I wish the whole world would just drop Microsoft office like the bad product it is and went to libre. Yeah, it was innovative when it first hit the scene, but now it’s just become stale and pointlessly expensive.
Of all the things to pirate, I think an office suite is probably one of the lameat ones. I tend to be very critical of open source software but the open source office programs I’ve used were perfectly adequate. Not nearly as slick, but fine.
Critical in what way? UX I do understand, but libre/free software is far superior in terms of security and user freedom/choice and for office suites this extends to better compatibility between suites using the .odt (open document) format and whatnot. Lemmy is free/libre software too, and it’s demonstrably better in several ways because of it.
Open office and Libre office.
It’s dumb though because WordPad is a very lightweight program for quickly jotting down stuff.
Notepad has always been better than WordPad for quickly jotting stuff down.
I’m sure there’s a use case for WordPad, but I don’t think I’ve ever used it because Notepad.
Notepad for life. If you dont need to do fancy formatting, why would you ever need anything other than plain text?
TED notepad is great. And free too. https://jsimlo.sk/notepad/
honestly, notepad.exe has done what I want and nothing more for 30 years running and there is no reason to look elsewhere
Or you know…piracy 🏴☠️
Why not just promote open source? Unless maybe if you need it for a career. Even if you’re …pirating just boycott that shit, lol.
Agreed. If you’re sharing files in Office file formats, even if you pirated the software, you’re still indirectly promoting their software.
LibreOffice can read and export to Microsoft Office formats. So there’s really no reason to pirate Microsoft Office even if you technically need it for a job (and if the IT guy complains about “non-standard software”, threaten to get him written up by HR for wasting company hours complaining instead of actually doing his job).
Except for those cases where it can’t. There’s always some small, but important, discrepancies. Never have I been able to actually use Libre Writer instead of Word when another party is using Word - same goes for Calc and Excel, sadly. Excel is an absolute UX nightmare for me and I violently hate using it.
I wish the whole world would just drop Microsoft office like the bad product it is and went to libre. Yeah, it was innovative when it first hit the scene, but now it’s just become stale and pointlessly expensive.
For me it was powerpoint presentations.
Of all the things to pirate, I think an office suite is probably one of the lameat ones. I tend to be very critical of open source software but the open source office programs I’ve used were perfectly adequate. Not nearly as slick, but fine.
Critical in what way? UX I do understand, but libre/free software is far superior in terms of security and user freedom/choice and for office suites this extends to better compatibility between suites using the .odt (open document) format and whatnot. Lemmy is free/libre software too, and it’s demonstrably better in several ways because of it.