alt Hacker News> it was called WordPad and no-one used it so they eventually deleted it.
about a third of windows users used wordpad. that's not a small amount
the issue, as i see it, is that they took two tools with two different user communities and slammed them together
>about a third of windows users used wordpad.
What's your source? I'm curious about use rates of other tools, I didn't know MS published that info.