After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad - eviltoast
  • mrcleanup@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I switched to Linux recently, you can too. It’s easy and works well now. No more of this bullshit from Microsoft.

  • masterspace@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    This is literally not an example of enshittification and the article is intentionally misleading.

    First of all, all of the original Notepad functions are unchanged and still free.

    Literally nothing got shittier.

    Which is why describing Notepad as getting a paywall is quite frankly flat out disingenuous.

    They are adding new, cloud running, AI features to Notepad that are locked behind a paywall. You can not like that for whatever reason, but that’s not an example of enshittification. That’s an example of them charging for new functionality.