> 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

>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.

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		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.