Nothing is sacred.
With this update, we are introducing the ability to rewrite content in Notepad with the help of generative AI. You can rephrase sentences, adjust the tone, and modify the length of your content based on your preferences to refine your text.
↫ Dave Grochocki at the Windows Insider Blog
This is the reason everything is going to shit.
Totally worth all those huge data centres and the nukes to power them.
Stop using US-based operating systems. Even the Linux distributions. openSUSE, EndeavourOS, CachyOS, they all sound great about now. OpenBSD has always been great.
AI enabled the rise of fascism and now it will be used to rewrite facts with alternative statements.
I had no idea Mussolini was a time traveler and used AI to create fascism. Huh i learn something new every day.
Fascism is about the state control of the means of production instead of individuals (capitalism) or the producers of goods and services (communism) through legislation, regulation and nationalisation.
Looks like a lack of reading comprehension strikes again. @unix_joe said “rise”, not “created”. I get the feeling they were talking about current events, specifically the election of a fascist in the US, thanks in part to an AI-driven disinformation campaign wielded by Russian activists.
Speaking of disinformation, you conveniently left out the part of the definition of fascism that deals with a dictator using the government and military to suppress the opposition and rule with an iron fist.
– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism
Last I checked the upcoming admin was about to axe like 2/3 of the government…not exactly a fascist move. At least that is the claim and I mean 2/3 by tax dollar wise not head count per se.
What is worse, there is literally no reg edits or powershell commands to disable all this new crap in notepad. It’s all playpen-os point and click to disable things like the autocorrect and spellcheck. I just want to edit some scripts! Leave me alone!
Even replacing notepad as the default txt editor is more additional hoops than it should be.
Bring back wordpad and frankenstein that, leave notepad alone!!
I also don’t like any of the changes. But it would seem that microsoft aren’t afraid tp displease users these days. After all, many users complain, but few actually do anything about it. I try to disable all the anti-features I can from my account, but I had to log into a new user account the other day…ugh it’s appalling how much of a hellscape windows has become. And why is it so slow? Even a fresh install is so bloated.
Win11Debloat works quite well. I have an old Intel celeron NUC that I can manage to use as a jump-box. Under 2GB ram after boot.
Seems Microsoft released the ‘upgrade to Windows Server 2025’ button in an update and Microsoft added some unusual status to it and some automated update installation tools did not see it as optional and thus sysadmins are having ‘fun time’ that their some of their WIndows servers upgraded from previous versions to the new version automatically. I can tell you, displease is one way to phrase it. 🙂
What is interesting Windows 2025 also has a different licensing system ? (I don’t know, I saw reports of it) So some aren’t licensed anymore too.
Obviously, maybe it should not be blamed on Microsoft unless they didn’t document the updates information properly, it’s just interesting a lot of tools got it wrong and marked it security update instead of optional.
Not sure if Grammarly needs to worry about all the lost business from hard-core notepad users.
This just feels like an excuse to data mine everything we type into notepad. That is probably worth more as a data stream than my lifetime value as a Windows customer otherwise. Perhaps I am too cynical.
Then again, I am typing this on macOS and have been using EndeavourOS all day. So they are not getting much out of me either way.
Nice touch there.
Haha. I have to agree, though. On teh interwebs, it’s a good idea to be a little paranoid. And the trend, as it has been for a while, is datamining. To sell your information to sell ads. It’s insane. Microsoft has a terrible track recent record when it comes to telemetry and collecting data. Stop using Microsoft.
It’s not just data mining, it’s also rent seeking:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/use-rewrite-in-notepad-to-enhance-your-writing-with-ai-4088b954-c97b-46dc-813f-959be01746d5
You now either have to buy credits to use Notepad or subscribe to Microsoft 365.
Honestly, when was the last time anyone of you actually used Notepad?
I don’t use use Windows everyday. But, when I do, literally every single time. You are at OSnews. =)
Yes, exactly. That`s why I thought people around here would use proper text editors 😉
I haven’t really used Notepad as a text editor on Windows in decades, preferring more capaple editors like Notepad++, Atom, UltraEdit, lately Pulsar.
well I do eek out a living supporting people and businesses running windows.
So between notes and scripts and batch files, I have had no less than 10 notepads or txt files open at a time.
Well, a lot less since the new version came out. It doesn’t start as fast it has a bunch of bells and whittles you don’t need.
What Notepad was good for, if you got to temporarily use a different computer (which doesn’t have your favorite editor) and just want to quickly make some notes. Or when you need a quick way to open a file as text.
I actually like tabbed notepad… its an improvement.
I mean things like this are bound to happen considering all the AI craze and it doesn’t seem to bother Microsoft Windows users all that much. So until some serious backlash happens Microsoft should assume end users are indifferent or want more of it. Two things worth mentioning here is first of all it’s rather amazing to see it, that when Microsoft is actually interested in something then there is no problem to develop and implement it. This was sorely missing for decades now, Microsoft abandoning any effort to develop something on presumably a bigger scale in terms of Windows, was mostly about skins and ads and a poor job was done even there. Now the second thing to mention is unfortunately i feel this is a niche thing. That is it’s nice and everything, to have such technology and to develop it but IMHO this is a solution for minority of people out there. Majority just has no real use for it and won’t use it in any meaningful way. Having it installed in Windows by default hence at best is perceived as bloat, for most. Historically speaking we all know on how different efforts to have something pre-installed, that feature doing something and you having no need for it ended up. It failed.
When I first read the subject line, I was thinking at least Notepad++ did do this!
Drunkula,
I used notepad++ too. Although at some point windows seems to have broken my catch all file associations I had for it. Speaking of that, the new open with dialog is a lot worse and it doesn’t even support keyboard input properly. The mouse works, but come on microsoft why are you so dead set on replacing mature windows interfaces with incomplete beta interfaces that are less efficient to use? What’s the point? So many of their changes just feel regressive to me.
It feels like the new Windows is like the ‘new office’ with the Ribbon, nobody asked for the new interface, it doesn’t make things easier. It does confuse or even annoy the existing users.
You’ll have no privacy and you’ll be happy.
It’s not like they haven’t told us.