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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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Are we not doing context anymore?
What is this? Just outrage for the sake of outrage?
Exactly. The issue is that it's a freemium model, where they advertise a product with additional features in Notepad. But Notepad itself is still free.
That's still bad, but so is the title.
Don't take this the wrong way, but it's hard for me to contain my incredulity: have you been asleep for the last decade? Has a very obvious pattern of enshitification not been constantly proven as a rule on the tech sector? And an article is... outrage?
Not the article, I meant the comment section