Could MS suck any worse? It’s like they want people to not use their products. Capitalism is the ouroboros.
this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2025
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The fact that they choose to mess with Notepad is more telling than the value it has given the alternatives.
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.
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Ragebait. Notepad is still free. If you want to use Rewrite, then you pay for that.
I can understand separating a new paid-only feature, especially if you don't much need that part. The new features are reportedly accessible from the GUI of Notepad so I wouldn't blame anyone else who thought "NOTEPAD" asked them to sign up and pay a subscription to use "NOTEPAD" features.
I used to rage when reading bad changes to Windows, even after I'd stopped using it. Now I just feel bad that my friends are still in that a bad relationship with their computer.
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Notepad is not free! Bah ha ha ha. Anyway, tons of options out there for those not to lazy to look.
Full access to notepad? So what, I need to pay to be able to toggle text wrapping or look at the about menu? It's fucking notepad.
EDIT: I didnt expect so many downvotes taking sides with MS
You obviously didn't read the article, but that's OK it's a trash article anyway. Which is already indicated by the headline, since Notepad was never free, it's just included with Windows.
But your comment is disconnected from what this is really about, which essentially boils down to nothing.
Since what you are supposed to pay for is new AI features. Otherwise you can use Notepad as usual.
hahahahahaha, they're gonna charge admission to a dead end next. ta-da!!!!
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