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Microsoft retires WordPad after 28 years — app no longer available as of Windows 11 24H2
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The drop-down text menu with dense options was good design. Adding the quick toolbar for more common tasks was also good design.
Moving everything from the text menu to the quick toolbar was bad design.
Just like the evolution of their search functionality. Started as an explorer feature (good), added to the start menu with a focus on program names (good), then they mixed web results from Bing and it's unclear if a program I'm searching for is installed and it found that or if it exists and the result is a link to some website (bad, if I wanted to search the fucking internet, I'd launch a fucking browser), also insisting on using their browser (wtf, they should have been broken up 20 fucking years ago, instead the courts decided to just fucking ignore them doing the same shit they lost the lawsuit for only much worse now).