Notepad will now tell you all the ways Microsoft has enshittified it Microsoft is meddling with Notepad again, this time adding a "What's New" screen so users know the latest indignities heaped on the once-humble text editor. The "What's New" first-run experience will appear during startup to guide users through the app's latest features. According to Microsoft, "this dialog provides a quick …
Notepad has been consistent and simple for a VERY long time. It had its flaws, but they were few and far between. It was small and just worked.
Now, if I do not run it as Admin, I cannot save to anything outside of Documents folder which is ridiculous. "Security" restrictions forces me to run it in Admin mode regardless of what I need to edit, which reduces overall security.
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Notepad, Snipping Tool, other apps broken by new bug in Windows 11
What could possibly go wrong with a vibe-coded operating system?
On this Win11 PC, I just fired up a Command Prompt Terminal session and typed edit. Very surprised to find the text mode editor started and worked well. With that success, I thought I'd try <edlin</i> - well, why wouldn't you?. That wasn't recognised. TBH, I never really used edlin.
We can't have it both ways - wanging on about Notepad++ et al with all their extras, then complaining when MS add anything to Notepad. I know some of the changes to the latter are intrusive, but from what I can tell, they can be turned off. Personally, I find it storing open files between reboots really handy, but I'm not at all bothered about formatting text or Copilot. I reckon I'll switch them off and get on with my life.
I am sure others have encountered this :
A task is given to someone, and they fuck it up so badly, that never in a month of Sundays, you could never find someone paid to fuck it up as badly as someone has done it, so naturally.
Microsoft are employing all those people.
Has a silver lining. Especially when you have to use Office 365, and today is another day it's keeled over.
So, maybe Microsoft are just making sure you have something more than just a text editor to write documents.
A friend called me this morning about the outage, as it was stuck in an install loop. Sent him link to download LibreOffice
by then RAM won't just be unaffordable it will just be unavailable and the *only* way to use a "computer" will be via a subscription plan to a "cloud" computing plan via a "terminal"/"telescreen"
Google office apps should have been a wake up call, ditto Chromebooks of where big tech aimed to send us.
Even better now that windows 10 has stopped patching screwing around with the system, the notepad there is just...notepad although I have noticed that it can handle large text files better than the windows 7 version can, when doing my microcontroller C programming on win7 I have to used notepad++ for the larger files.
I had noticed the never to be sufficiently damned Copilot icon in Windows 11 but hadn't looked into the full horror. My company loads Notepad ++ on everything which gives all the useful stuff like syntax highlighting in various languages, line numbering, and tracking your parentheses and none of the useless "AI" junk.
