"VanguardLH" wrote
| Mayayana wrote:
|
| I just read that MS are planning to remove Paint
| and Wordpad. I guess that makes sense. It's a gradual
| transformation from a productivity device to a services
| kiosk. Happy shopping.
|
| I remember reading in the past about Microsoft removing Paint, but it
| remained. I don't recall seeing they were going to remove WordPad.
|

Actually I misspoke. I looked up the link to post and realized
that what they said is Paint and Wordpad will be removable,
not removed. And they'll be added to the store.

Interesting description you gave of Office. I knew about
MS Office. I knew about Office 365. I didn't know there
was a half-assed, free web portal office. I assume you're using
this stuff mostly out of curiosity. I don't see why anyone
would normally want to use that portal or Google docs, much
less both. But I have noticed that Google docs is getting
very popular. People send links to me. But I can't see
anything. I'm not about to let Google run script on my
machine. The source code for a Google doc link is not a webpage
in any normal sense. It's a piece of javascript software. I don't
even know whether Google would require me to sign up in
order to see these docs. And I'm not curious to find out. I
just tell people that if they want me to see their file then
they'll have to send me their file.

Maybe the Google docs popularity is due to so much being
done on phones? It doesn't make sense to me, letting sleazy,
spyware companies own both your software and your files,
when things like Libre Office are free.