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After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad (www.tweaktown.com)
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[โ€“] RustyShackleford@literature.cafe 15 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Notepad++ isn't trying to shoehorn in AI for starters. It's clear Microsoft is praying the current gimmicky narrative of AI will let the masses not realize this is a privacy nightmare.

[โ€“] Eheran@lemmy.world 0 points 14 hours ago

Notepad does that neither for me and has not for >20 years. So is there something that is actually better or not?