I provide support for a Windows-only application that has to do automated document conversion. Some customers refuse to pay for an additional Office license and the only other option is WordPad. Going back to work on Tuesday is going to suck.

No wtf microsoft!!

At least there's Notepad++. An absolute end of an era.

I get it. MS has a “free” rich text editor, it’s Word online. You can easily install any other simple rich text editor (is abiword still a thing?) on Windows. Wordpad probably has minimal usage.

A good alternative is abiword. Don't know if it exists on Windows tho.

Linux, BSD, and macOS users: