[procone]

Wordpad was horrible! Nobody reasonable misses binary encoded .rtf files. They were a nightmare for any other platform other than windows.

What are these horrible takes?

[4k0hz]

The point is that there was basically no reason to totally kill Wordpad in the way that they did. They're different products and the new Notepad is closer to the ideal version of Wordpad than what Notepad is supposed to be, and now there's no Notepad.

[sznio]

>Nobody reasonable misses binary encoded .rtf files.

then put the markdown support there to supplant rtfs?

[throw-the-towel]

RTF is not binary encoded though? It's plain text with commands, not unlike TeX.