"Sign in to your Microsoft account" to use... Notepad? This is not the future I wanted.
Even Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing now
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Re: Even Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing now
#72Notepad and plain text is the last place I want AI. I just want a place to type and paste non-formatted (outside of whitespace) text.
Telemetry indicated people were using notepad a lot resulting it being targeted by the AI team to juice uptake numbers.
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#73So, they went from not updating in forever, to finally updating it in some meaningful ways a couple years ago, to adding crap that no one wants pretty much right away. Too much, MS. Shoulda quit while you were ahead with tabs.
Re: Even Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing now
#74Software companies want to shove AI everywhere because it's the shiny new thing. Hardware companies love it because they can finally have a way to fight the "it's good enough for email and browsing" argument to sell us more hardware.
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#75Why do writing tools have to be a feature of every app instead of an operating-system wide tool like Apple Intelligence? Makes no sense whatsoever to just "sprinkle AI everywhere" except for specialized use cases.
You seem to be of the understanding that Microsoft has some sort of unified strategy that tries to optimize for user experience. Might have been true in the beginning of the company's life, but today? They've been using the "spraying and praying" strategy for the last 2 decades at least and this is just another way of applying said strategy.
Re: Even Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing now
#76Why do writing tools have to be a feature of every app instead of an operating-system wide tool like Apple Intelligence? Makes no sense whatsoever to just "sprinkle AI everywhere" except for specialized use cases.
I bet there's there's a poorly thought out directive from the company bigwigs to integrate AI into all Microsoft products, and middle management is gobbling that up to get ahead in the rat race.
Visual Studio and VSCode have also become infested with little Copilot icons.
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#77Throwing AI at everything is starting to make cryptocurrency seem positively environmentally friendly. At least it serves some kind of purpose.
It a result of a rather sad trend, which I think started with Google. Rather than going out and doing market research you just throw things against the wall, measure and see if people are using it at any significant rate. The difference between Google and Microsoft is that Google have no problems just killing of things that doesn't perform to their standard (which is bad in it's own way). With Microsoft backwards com…
Perhaps trying random things uncovers more big opportunities than market research does. Market research tells you to breed faster horses; random things converge to combustion engines.
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#78I just wish Microsoft had a simpler mindset for their OS. Simple, privacy-first, consumer-first defaults and optional upgrades to more enhanced tools via their App Store.
Imagine if instead of Windows Recall being installed and available automatically on machines, they just added Recall as an optional downloadable add-on via the App Store... I don't think it would have received nearly as much backlash.
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#79Just nope.
The value of notepad and paint to me are that they are simple and reasonably minimalistic. Adding features makes those sorts of programs less useful to me.
Also, I can't trust any software that incorporates AI because I can't trust that my usage of that software won't be used to train AI.
So this move means that I won't be using these tools anymore. Not that it matters to anyone aside from myself, of course. It's also not a huge deal to me -- I'll just start using different tools that still meet my needs.
Re: Even Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing now
#80what about MS Paint? Can it get AI assistant to create shitty pixel art? Edit: Oh. It does too.
Oh Lord, MS Paint has AI, too?