Microsoft paywalling AI features in Notepad and Paint

87 点作者 billybuckwheat大约 2 个月前

25 条评论

duxup大约 2 个月前

Long ago I loved Windows, it wasn't pretty, but it was utilitarian and it worked and I could strip it down to what I needed and I was good to go.I still fondly remember the old windows 95 start me up commercials <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRdl1BjTG7c" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRdl1BjTG7c</a>, wonderful time.Then they started introducing all sorts of incomplete UI and UX, then the updates kept undoing my explicit settings, now Windows just seems like an ad-supported Operating System ...I ran to Apple and haven't looked back. All I see are reasons to stay away if at all possible.

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colonwqbang大约 2 个月前

Sure, microsoft isn’t going to foot the openai bill for every idiot with a pirated windows installation. I’m sure nobody is really surprised to hear that.The fact that somebody at Microsoft saw fit to add AI integration for notepad.exe in the first place is … interesting. I guess it’s been a very dull time for the notepad product manager during the past 30 years so now they finally get their revenge on the world.

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userbinator大约 2 个月前

"Features" that a large number of users would gladly not pay for anyway. MS has really burned a lot of the reputation and trust they've built in the early days.The new Win11 notepad is repulsively modern, a good example of how far software has fallen. I don't want tabs, more whitespace, nor more sluggishness or AI "enhancements" in a simple text editor.

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ourmandave大约 2 个月前

Jeez, it makes me want to buy windows start bar ads for Notepad++ and Paint.net just to raise awareness that there's free options a bazillion times better.

RossBencina大约 2 个月前

During the first era where notepad.exe really sucked (non-standard key commands and such) I switched to the very lightweight notepad replacement metapad.exe by Alexander Davidson and never looked back.That said, after over 25 years primarily on Windows, I am planning my exit to Linux. Windows has diverged from my expectations.

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bastard_op大约 2 个月前

I had to look, thinking "What, I can't save a file anymore without a subscription?" Sounds like a microsoft thing to do.But no, it was just goddamn access to AI. In notepad. Oh, that's a thing, and one I should pay for?/me goes back to using Linux chuckling at the poor bastards that use windoze only every day

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HenryBemis大约 2 个月前

Pro tip: find and copy mspaint and notepad from a previous Win OS version. Also the old calculator ;)I am not saying that I have done so, but let's say that I keep copies of some older .exe files 'because'. Now that I read this I laughed a bit because those will come in handy.Also I always suggest that you find WindowsFirewallControl v4.9.x.x and install it, and set it on "Medium Filtering" and "Display Notifications". They block all the garbage MS bloatware apps that want to 'speak to the internet' and trust me when I tell you, 99% of the apps in your PC don't need to have 24/7/365 access. You want to update your VLC? Good! Allow it for 5mins, update, block it again. Same for the myriad other Microsoft .exe files that do not serve OUR purpose.

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Mountain_Skies大约 2 个月前

Microsoft's LLM obsession is getting out of hand. I use Firefox for 95% of my browsing but load up Edge for anything finance related. When I opened it today, I was greeted with a full page of information about all the new AI features they had crammed in to watch everything I do in the browser. I found the settings that say they turn this off but some of it was rather ambiguous. Given how often the screw up OS updates these days, I don't trust them to keep private whatever data they're scaping from Edge. The company seems to be converging from many directions on a massive data breach that will put to shame any other past data breaches.

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dist-epoch大约 2 个月前

The pay-walled features: AIBut let's not let facts ruin a good Windows 11 outrage story.

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chrismcb大约 2 个月前

So people still use notepad and paint? One of the first things I do with a fresh install is install notepad++ and paint.net.

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baxuz大约 2 个月前

My windows machine has been basically delegated to a Steam launcher.And no, before anyone else tries to sell me on Proton, it's not there yet. It doesn't have Dolby Atmos, DualSense support, advanced gpu features, the peripheral support, half of the games don't work properly, and of course there's performance loss.

sbuttgereit大约 2 个月前

My feeling is that they're paywalling features that are arguably better left out of these tools anyway.When I'm reaching for Notepad, I want something that is very minimal with very low "interpretive" functionality. If I'm on Windows, I want to expect that it is there if I'm working in an unfamiliar environment and I don't want to hide the raw text as much as possible. Same with Paint. In both cases, if I want more, I'll reach for a more capable tool which excels at having the advanced features I'm looking for.

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_-_-__-_-_-大约 2 个月前

Just today, I finished migrating all my local services from my Windows desktop to a new machine running Ubuntu 24.10. I can now shut down the entire Windows machine and boot it up without Internet access as needed. Seems like as good a time as any to run Linux on the desktop.

kombine大约 2 个月前

I feel sad for Windows users here on Linux. KDE Desktop has KolourPaint (basic image editor) and KWrite/Kate text editors, all miles ahead of their Windows counterparts and completely free. It's criminal that Open Source software isn't used more.

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magnetowasright大约 2 个月前

I assume that the venn diagram of people using notepad and people using AI stuff would be two distinct circles. Same with paint.I don't use windows and I know nothing about how people use it.Am I totally off the mark with this loosely held opinion/confusion?

6stringmerc大约 2 个月前

I remember using MS Paint and a USB flash drive to bypass the Best Buy system deployed on PCs back in the early 2000s. Paint still has some great functionality as a complement to PowerPoint and Word in an office workflow.

jjulius大约 2 个月前

Why in the hell does Notepad need AI? I can't roll my eyes any harder than I am at this idea. Jesus.Edit: I challenge those who downvote this to steelman the inclusion of AI in what is ostensibly supposed to be a very barebones, simplistic, no frills notepad.

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uladzislau大约 2 个月前

This should be in “not the onion”.

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lowmagnet大约 2 个月前

I don't use either application, and haven't for decades. Weird choice.

karunamurti大约 2 个月前

Let's just see if it's going to be nagware or not.

cwbrandsma大约 2 个月前

Doesn't look like they are paywalling existing feature, just some new AI back functionality. Considering how much is costs to run those sorts of features I can understand.Plus, there are lots of alternative app that are free and easy to download and install.

nyarlathotep_大约 2 个月前

Genuinely assumed this was parody.

gdulli大约 2 个月前

People complain when the AI crap is forced on them and people complain when it isn't.

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mike503大约 2 个月前

Notepad is crap in Windows 11. I wanted a stupid simple way to put crap into a scratchpad (often times) and now it tries to outsmart me with multiple windows/tabs, maintaining state, spellchecking. I’ve disabled everything I can in it. It’s merely tolerable now.They should have kept Wordpad and added all the crap into that.

yapyap大约 2 个月前

at first I was like “pardon?” but it’s just the AI shit, not like ur gonna get charged by the word or by the stroke or anything