Don’t take this the wrong way, but it’s hard for me to contain my incredulity: have you been asleep for the last decade? Has a very obvious pattern of enshitification has not been constantly proven as a rule on the tech sector? And an article is… outrage?
Comment on After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad
Shardikprime@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It should be noted that you can still use Notepad without a Microsoft account,
Despite the ability to still use the software without an account
Are we not doing context anymore?
What is this? Just outrage for the sake of outrage?
Nosavingthrow@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Shardikprime@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Not the article, I meant the comment section
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Exactly. The issue is that it’s a freemium model, where they advertise a product with additional features in Notepad. But Notepad itself is still free.
That’s still bad, but so is the title.