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Microsoft drops Copilot branding in Notepad for Windows 11 for everyone, but it’s really just a rename (www.windowslatest.com)
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[–] Tiral@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago

Rofl Microslop.

Users: We just want OS wide dark mode, AI not rammed down our throats, and non stop ads, and hopefully updates that don't break everything repeatedly.

MS: We hear you loud and clear! We're implementing AI into every single thing and the ADs will now be targeted based on information we've stol.....collected from you!

MS: I don't get it, why does everyone hate us?

[–] artyom@piefed.social 97 points 1 day ago

TLDR: they didn't do anything except remove the copilot branding

[–] Hond@piefed.social 75 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

idk why but the AI integration into Notepad makes me always laugh. Its a perfectly fine pre-installed text editor which just does its job to occasionally open a textfile or to eg quickly edit two lines in an .ini. Its biggest new feature in 20 or 30 years was the addition of tabs with Win11. But beyond that its almost useless. If you want to do anything more involved you better download one of the many alternatives with actual features to get shit done.

Its just so nonsensical to me to add AI to this class of product. Why? Same with paint. Paint is fine for what it is. But what the fuck am i supposed to do with AI in such a simplistic program? Its so stupid.

[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 64 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They are so so desperate to find a use case to this trash tech they dump billions into and ruined all their other software offerings for, with no outlook for profit yet.

[–] EpeeGnome@feddit.online 66 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Actually, they have 2 Outlooks, and neither of them are working.

[–] uniquethrowagay@feddit.org 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I believe there are three products called Outlook, actually

[–] Mountainaire@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wait, what's the third?

[–] uniquethrowagay@feddit.org 12 points 20 hours ago

There is what used to be the "Mail App" that was introduced with Win10. That was renamed to Outlook. A new Outlook was then installed automatically that was called Outlook (new). At some point, Outlook was renamed "Outlook (classic) and Outlook (new) was renamed "Outlook". On top of that there is the Outlook that is part of the MS Office suite, if you have that installed.

I'm not entirely sure how accurate my memory of this desaster is, though. I don't use Windows on my personal machines, I noticed this on a friend's computer I was fixing.

[–] underscores@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I rage installed obsidian at work because of notepad. I wouldn't call it "perfectly fine" by any means.

Notepad is extremely slow and bloated. Obsidian loads faster and never loses scratch pad sessions (probably because they don't exist and are stored)

Obsidian is some massive electron app and runs better than notepad.

[–] Hond@piefed.social 12 points 1 day ago

Fair, maybe i should have worded it notepad was perfectly fine. Havent touched the win11 version for 2 years now.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

My company discontinued access to notepad++. Fortunately, that same week they added vs code. If stripped to the bare minimum it's a serviceably fast text editor. (FOSS has to be approved by IT)

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[–] KillGorack@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Just use kate

[–] lemmock@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

At home? Sure. On my computer-owned, locked down, and corporate IT monitored work laptop? Abso-fucking-lutely not!

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[–] percent@infosec.pub 18 points 1 day ago (6 children)

That's Notepad in the screenshot? I haven't used Windows in years, but I remember Notepad being the one that didn't do rich text. Did they just fold Wordpad into Notepad and add Copilot?

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 11 points 19 hours ago

So now notepad is the worst of both worlds. It doesn't do rich text formatting but it does support some random markdown features. But only some, not all. So it's useless as a markdown editor.

Oh and it has tabs now and saves on exit, which fortunately you can turn off.

[–] ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago

It doesn't do rtf. You can change the typeface but it applies to the whole document.

Wordpad is still available free, it's just not a default install.

[–] stefenauris@pawb.social 17 points 1 day ago

Basically yes

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

What they did to notepad was the final straw for me.

[–] blackbeans@lemmy.zip 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Not really. WordPad supported rtf and things like embedded images. It has been obsoleted by MS.

Notepad doesn't do rtf, but they did add markdown support. Which I think is an ok feature. The bad part is the application now also includes AI and other unnecessary features and doesn't feel as snappy and fast as the old one.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Yep.

They paywalled basic-ass Wordpad a few years ago. Yet another reason why I started using LibreOffice.

[–] chmod755@feddit.org 25 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm using Notepad++ on Windows

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Just move to Linux at this point

[–] wasabi@lemmy.eco.br 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

To be fair, Notepad++ is an excellent piece of software, and I still miss it on Linux. Specifically, I miss the feature that can highlight the same text strings in different colors throughout a document. It's valuable when going through logs while troubleshooting something.

[–] freddo@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can't this be done with Kate?

[–] badgermurphy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I feel like almost everything can be done with Kate if you find the right setting. I think you can get it to knit you a sweater!

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[–] Atropos@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I would love to, but I need to use solidworks for my job.

I could virtualize it, but I also need to use MS apps like Teams, and at that point I'd just be in the windows vm 100% of the time anyway.

But this doesn't prevent me from learning Linux at home!

[–] Weingeist@feddit.org 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

There are wrappers to run teams directly on Linux. Works like charm.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 19 hours ago

That's pretty impressive since teams barely even runs on windows.

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[–] Miller@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (3 children)

As soon as marketing people say things like 'focussing on experiences' you realise they do not know how people use Windows.

[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I do recommend against things that suck, however

which is just about everything microslop touches

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Same reason why somebody won't tell somebody else "you should use that specific bathroom stall" but they will "don't use that specific bathroom stall".

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[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 31 points 1 day ago (8 children)

I went to Settings > Apps > Advanced app settings > App execution aliases and turned Notepad off so I can start the old one with win+r "notepad".
I only use it as a clipboard, my .txt, .log and .csv are all bound to open with notepad++.

[–] WesternInfidels@feddit.online 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Are you aware of the "Multiple Clipboard" feature? Which is a deceptively simple productivity boost, a game-changer, a hidden gem in a sea of dark Windows patterns?

[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 2 points 21 hours ago

I wasn't, no. Seems like it can be useful but I'm probably gonna keep using notepad instead of risking having sensitive data saved in the clipboard history. :)

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[–] daggermoon@piefed.world 18 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Thank god Kate has a Windows port.

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yeah, but that's using Linux with extra steps

[–] daggermoon@piefed.world 4 points 1 day ago

Most of the KDE apps on Windows are broken in one way or another. Kate is the only one that works well in my experience. That being said, yes Linux is better.

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago

It was possible to replace Windows Task Bar with KDE Panel at one point (could be around KDE 4 times) and it was actually hilarious to use Windows with KDE (Dolphin and all). Certainly made Windows less terrible.

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[–] Xirup@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I have to use Shitdows 11 for work and honestly, I want to perform a lobotomy on myself because each fucking time I want to close the Notepad, Shitdows doesn't allow me because "It have to sync", why the fuck should a notepad sync???

[–] terabyterex@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Thats your company. Notpad doesnt sync for the rest of us

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