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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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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.