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I can't recall a single computer I sold or had anyone buy having Word bundled with the computer, but Microsoft Works Word Processor was bundled everywhere, before they started doing the Office trial junk. I always ended up using WordPad in rtf format anyway because all the file format differences made moving docs so hard.
And yeah, ads in calc.exe, the death of WordPad, the bloating of Notepad... all pretty normal stuff now. There must be a mandate from the higher ups that anything untouched for x amount of days has to be removed or monetized.
... ads in calc.exe? what the actual fuck
Yup, back when it transitioned to UWP. I don't know if they removed them because I immediately extracted the old version from a previous Windows and have been towing along that import baggage every setup since.
I already migrated the Win7 calc.exe because I don't like how poorly the Win10 one handles keyboard input, thanks for letting me know I need to make sure to save it for when Win11 becomes inevitable, too.
Maybe it's local, I am in the UK and every computer I bought with Windows installed up until about 8 years ago came with standalone Word bundled. Works was there too but unused.