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Microsoft drops Copilot branding in Notepad for Windows 11 for everyone, but it’s really just a rename
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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.
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.
Actually, they have 2 Outlooks, and neither of them are working.
I believe there are three products called Outlook, actually
Wait, what's the third?
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.
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.
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)
Fair, maybe i should have worded it notepad was perfectly fine. Havent touched the win11 version for 2 years now.
Obsidian loads faster then notepad? Thats surprising, considering its a full blown markdown editor with plugins and tons of features.
But yeah, Microsoft stopped caring about windows speed and quality long time ago.
It's completely shocking to me, something is fatally wrong with native windows applications