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| ▲ | parl_match a day ago | parent | next [-] |
| > it was called WordPad and no-one used it so they eventually deleted it. about a third of windows users used wordpad. that's not a small amount the issue, as i see it, is that they took two tools with two different user communities and slammed them together |
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| ▲ | pbhjpbhj a day ago | parent [-] | | >about a third of windows users used wordpad. What's your source? I'm curious about use rates of other tools, I didn't know MS published that info. | | |
| ▲ | parl_match 21 hours ago | parent [-] | | last place i worked at had internal telemetry on end user machines. i dont know the way it was being used, although i suspect it was a document viewer. |
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| ▲ | brudgers a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| People used Wordpad and thus other people had trouble opening RTF files. |
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| ▲ | brian-armstrong a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The people who still use Windows yet complain about this are quite confusing to me. There's been every indication that it will keep going like this for years now, and the cost of switching is just not that high. If you're still riding that train it's time to just embrace it. |
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| ▲ | makeitdouble a day ago | parent | next [-] | | > the cost of switching is just not that high. For you. I mean, obviously it's still high enough that they're not switching. Beside the point, I'm bouncing between the different OSes at home and work, and honestly they're all deeply broken in different ways that require significant effort to make the best of it. I get people hate ads, so Windows is at the bottom of the list, but honestly I could care less for that additional 2 min of initial tweak when I'm spending half a day doing the setup anyway. On Notepad stopping being raw text only, the main issue to me would be the safety it provided. Being first party meant never having to care about security (e.g. the company getting bought by a random malware vendor) or availability. | | |
| ▲ | prmoustache 21 hours ago | parent [-] | | > e.g. the company getting bought by a random malware vendor That point is a bit moot when the whole OS is a malware. | | |
| ▲ | makeitdouble 20 hours ago | parent [-] | | Just some anecdata, but I have yet to be asked by Microsoft for some bitcoin ransom to get back my computer data. |
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| ▲ | samplatt a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | >the cost of switching is just not that high Oh, my sweet summer child. Please realise that such blanket statements like that are profoundly ignorant. (Note: I'm running an entirely Windows-free household. ) The problem is changing the way companies build themselves up to work. Business logic. Even for medium-sized companies (100-1000 heads), what you're proposing is paying scores of business analysts months (years?) worth of time to review business processes, before you even get the teams of IT people to start making the switchover. And that's not even taking into considering the fact that many large software packages simply do not work under nix and there is no realistic alternative. Basically every industry related to engineering simply cannot switch. The processes and systems required to build Big Things in the real world are gargantuan and terrifying and sickening. Companies spend hundreds of millions every year putting up with Microsoft's bullshit because there is no alternative. | |
| ▲ | protocolture a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | >The people who still use Windows yet complain about this are quite confusing to me. What confuses me is how people think theres anything close to an alternative for corporate environments. Windows isnt Windows. Windows is the best supported OS by the Microsoft cloud stack. They get away with this sort of nonsense because large corps have nowhere to go. >the cost of switching is just not that high. Lol, lmao even. The cost of switching one laptop to linux is quite low. The cost of taking an enterprise using Microsoft everywhere to linux is something else entirely. | | |
| ▲ | skissane a day ago | parent | next [-] | | > They get away with this sort of nonsense because large corps have nowhere to go. I think a lot of large corps could function quite well with a model like: (a) allow employees to choose a MacBook instead; (b) use various macOS enterprise management tools (such as Jamf); (c) use Windows virtual desktops for Windows-only apps The main reason many don’t isn’t because this strategy won’t work - it is because it would cost them significantly more than a Windows-only strategy. So they won’t do it, or they will but limit it to only certain job functions (engineering, executives, sales) where the business benefit is clearer The problem with adding Linux to the mix, is the variability of hardware and distributions can make it a lot more complex to manage, compared to a Windows-only or Windows+Mac fleet. And you also need people in your IT org with the skillset to handle it | | |
| ▲ | protocolture a day ago | parent [-] | | >The main reason many don’t isn’t because this strategy won’t work - it is because it would cost them significantly more than a Windows-only strategy. So they won’t do it, or they will but limit it to only certain job functions (engineering, executives, sales) where the business benefit is clearer Yeah VDI is getting close to universal adoption, but security is always where things come back to. Eventually an end user is going to have something sensitive on their macbook, and they will have fallen through some sort of compliance gap. Its easier from a compliance standpoint to control everything permissible. |
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| ▲ | flatline a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | I’m not sure why you were downvoted. I have to use Windows for work. The barrier to entry is simply lower for many system administrators and users alike. The homogeneity of a Windows rollout is extremely attractive. You are going to have a hard sell getting your accounting team and receptionist onto Linux. Your developers will complain and make do. I love complaining about Windows! |
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| ▲ | aizk a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Not to mention that notepad had a 7.8 CVE (an RCE) earlier this year -- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-20841 |
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| ▲ | scythe a day ago | parent | prev [-] |
| >Notepad but with Rich Text formatting TextEdit on Mac uses RTF. Perhaps that's why Windows switched. |
