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After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad (www.tweaktown.com)
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[–] mr_jaaay@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 hours ago

Why? I mean, one of the main features of generative AI systems is to generate text (the quality of which I won’t get into), why not add this to something like Notepad. I agree that Notepad should be thought of as a lightweight, well, notepad, but still might be useful as a quicker alternative to Word.

The fact that Microsoft is trying to shove Copilot down our throats at every possible step is idiotic, I agree, but having an AI as part of a notes app doesn’t seem too weird.