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After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad (www.tweaktown.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

It should be noted that you can still use Notepad without a Microsoft account

Despite the ability to still use the software without an account

Are we not doing context anymore?

What is this? Just outrage for the sake of outrage?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 month ago

Not the article, I meant the comment section