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After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad
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this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2025
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Can't wait to see in 5 years while all of the LLM nonsense quietly gets shuffled further and further to the back until it's gone like Cortana or Paint3D
Meanwhile has anyone noticed Microsoft has unhidden some genuinely useful older menus like Control Panel? Earlier in the windows 10 lifespan you couldn't search for control panel and had to instead use constantly changing shortcuts and tooltips to gain access to it, but now you can just search for Control Panel and pull it right up. I'm not thrilled that I have to dig for the network adapter properties still but I'll take the improvements I get
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