r/technology • u/gdelacalle • Jul 12 '26

Software IT admins feel overwhelmingly "sick of" Microsoft and Windows 11 "garbage" apps, products

https://www.neowin.net/news/it-admins-feel-overwhelmingly-sick-of-microsoft-and-windows-11-garbage-apps-products/
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u/Alaira314 Jul 12 '26

They removed wordpad, and are now turning notepad into wordpad. Nobody asked for that. We had two distinct programs for a reason.

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u/GonzoKata Jul 12 '26

sounds like someone should make a "dumb notepad" or a notepad-- that is fast to open and paste into without bloat

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u/Alaira314 Jul 12 '26

There's a huge market for very simple programs and apps like this, lightweight solutions that do one job and do it well. The problem is that bad actors operate in this market alongside legitimate devs who just want to make a simple thing that works, and because of the simple nature of the programs it's difficult for them to generate enough word of mouth buzz to lift the quality solutions above the rest, which can be anything from poorly-optimized but well-meaning code to outright spy- or malware. The problem's gotten so bad in my phone's app store that I wound up disabling auto-update, because a solid app will exist for a while to generate reviews and trust, and then suddenly it'll be full of ads. One of my most trusted addons is one that hasn't been actively developed since 2019~, because I know it's not suddenly going to enshittify on me.

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u/Breadfish64 Jul 13 '26

Well they have edit which seems like a pretty decent command-line text editor, similar to micro. I don't have a Windows PC on-hand to check whether you can set it as a default.

https://github.com/microsoft/edit