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After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad (www.tweaktown.com)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

After taking a look at the pictures of the article, I noticed “requires AI credits”. Credits?! What is this now? Some shitty mobile game? Really, Microsoft isn’t ashamed of anything anymore…

I mean, I don’t know about Microsoft and windows, so maybe this is different, but the name sounds crazy!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

Likely you'll have to pay for some AI service, because the executives' children cried after watching an old sci-fi, that "we can't have intelligent conversations with out computers in 2016 in the real world, while in 2015 in the movie adaptation of Don't Build The Torment Nexus, there was Torment Nexus the intelligent and smart computer".