Notepad has long been a testbed for new technology in Windows. This isn't just a sign of enshittification, it's a warning that they want to do more.
After taking a look at the pictures of the article, I noticed “requires AI credits”. Credits?! What is this now? Some shitty mobile game? Really, Microsoft isn’t ashamed of anything anymore…
I mean, I don’t know about Microsoft and windows, so maybe this is different, but the name sounds crazy!
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The fact that they choose to mess with Notepad is more telling than the value it has given the alternatives.
Ragebait. Notepad is still free. If you want to use Rewrite, then you pay for that.
Notepad++ is my text editor of choice as someone who just edits the occasional file. I'm not a programmer or anything, but it's nice to have those autocomplete and syntax highlighting features for config files. Helps me keep track of stuff better when editing.
Good thing whenever I set up Windows, Notepad is one of the things I nuke, using Geany to replace it.
This is a bad sign if MS gets emboldened and starts paywalling basic OS functionality at some point in the future, though.
isn't the paywall for notepad buying windows and a computer?
They could've added this to wordpad if they didn't kill it.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Apple does something like this too at some point in the future
I have always been partial to gedit, kate aint bad either.
(neo)vim for life :)
Every PC I've ever owned has had some version of vi installed on it pretty much on day one of my owning it.
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