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After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad (www.tweaktown.com)
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[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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?

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week 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.

[–] Nosavingthrow@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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?

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world -3 points 1 week ago

Not the article, I meant the comment section