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Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years
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This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
2000 was mostly NT and business stuff (which later became XP), and 8.1 by definition isn't really a new version.
Actually, 8.1 is, or at least they market it like a new version just like Windows 7.