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Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years
(www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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WordPad was a fast and efficient way to view doc files without loading into LibreOffice or any other office suite, or to make rich text documents quickly. But alas, we have to go to the cloud for our notes now...
Do the ultimate OP solution and host your own nextcloud. It has built in office and everything google drive has.
Notepad++ does that too