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Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years
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This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Only thing I used it for was when older versions of Notepad couldn't handle larger text files. Now it can. So, no loss to me. Notepad going away would suck, that does at least get occasional use although Notepad++ is far superior.
Notepad++ can't handle as big files for some reason. At work we have files that can reach 5-600 MB, and NP++ can't always open those, but notepad handles then with no problem.
With bigger files or searching in files where there's a lot of data I found sublimetext to be much more efficient (than n++)
I use sublime at home, but work is pretty strict with what we can use.