Path: ...!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Microsoft notepad.exe paywall Date: 26 Feb 2025 19:55:37 GMT Organization: Stefan Ram Lines: 16 Expires: 1 Mar 2026 11:59:58 GMT Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de FfaqPJnaCaOtChEX2peQ6AGPenPX2q15IH+YMeFeNngkdJ Cancel-Lock: sha1:FxZwuKSKwFDgRN0kk18WyemkWHc= sha256:xHHNpXs7Seer/h33QtcQvmiTNt0WYVz3KMIJ/G274RI= X-Copyright: (C) Copyright 2025 Stefan Ram. All rights reserved. Distribution through any means other than regular usenet channels is forbidden. It is forbidden to publish this article in the Web, to change URIs of this article into links, and to transfer the body without this notice, but quotations of parts in other Usenet posts are allowed. X-No-Archive: Yes Archive: no X-No-Archive-Readme: "X-No-Archive" is set, because this prevents some services to mirror the article in the web. But the article may be kept on a Usenet archive server with only NNTP access. X-No-Html: yes Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 1944 Ben Collver wrote or quoted: >If you want full access to Notepad, Microsoft now requires users to >pay I've always grokked "Notepad" as bare-bones software that just has the rock-bottom essentials to qualify as a text editor. As the article spells out later, you only need to sign up if you wanna tap into those fancy AI add-ons. That said, the in-app promos for that stuff would still get under my skin. >It should be noted that you can still use Notepad without a Microsoft >account, and users can go as far as removing the Rewrite icon >completely from Notepad.