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WordPad
Description
WordPad was a word processor software included with Windows 95 and later, until Windows 11. It was a basic word processor, positioned as more advanced than the Notepad text editor by supporting rich text editing, but with a subset of the functionality of Microsoft Word.
Information
Developer
microsoft
Released
1 January, 1995
Discontinued
31 December, 2023
Lifespan
29 years
Type
software
Source
Windows Reader
Windows Reader was an app to read PDF, XPS and TIFF files by Microsoft. It was killed in favour of Edge's implementation of PDF reading ability.
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Microsoft Works
Microsoft Works was an intuitive and cheap alternative to Office. It included a word processor, a spreadsheet and a database management system. Later versions had a calendar application and a dictionary.
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