• venotic
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    585 months ago

    Even if you’re right, why the fuck add in unnecessary features to a simple word program?

    • @SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
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      425 months ago

      It’s not even a simple “word” program - that’s what write/WordPad was. Notepad is supposed to be just a bare bones text editor, like for altering an .ini file or writing a website in 1997.

      • Muad'dib
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        25 months ago

        I love wordpad. Still used it when I sucked Bill Gates’ chesticles on the Windows machine

          • @And009@lemmynsfw.com
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            75 months ago

            I’m not exactly sure what you mean.

            Notepad is a basic product users expect to use for the most minor edits. It has established expectations for over 2 decades, changing how or what it does won’t benefit more people if not frustrate them.

            From a product design point of view it has been made harder to access, by adding a whole login procedure justified by feature additions that no one asked for. This drastically reduces the privacy too.

            Depends whether it qualifies as enshittification, but they definitely didn’t do any favors.

    • FaceDeer
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      45 months ago

      Don’t use them if you don’t want them. A paywall even helps you stick to that.

    • @kepix@lemmy.world
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      35 months ago

      the same reason why every program gets an ai feature: data farming, and reason to ask money for it