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since when is Windows Notepad, RichEdit? Its just a TMemo with a bit fancy UI around it, nothing about it is RichEdit (that was Wordpad)

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Notepad on Windows 11 uses RichEdit https://devblogs.microsoft.com/math-in-office/windows-11-notepad/

I think you may be getting confused with Rich Text Format and the like - I.e. A format/markup and editors supporting bold, italiic, different fonts etc.

That’s not RichEdit - it is a basically a type of text entry box in Windows and the features it can support. The current version of it supports emoji, multilevel undo, auto rendering URLs, drag and drop etc. It’s still just a text box but just a bit more integrated and sophisticated than the older versions.

So Notepad in Windows 11 is a bit more sophisticated in terms of the text interface for users than it used to be but it’s still just working with txt files.

It’s not like wordpad, which could work with proper markup and other formats. This is cruedly more in the realm like notepad++ - working with txt files but with more sophisticated control and options for the user (but to be clear notepad++ remains way more sophisticated than win 11 notepad).

Edit: and of course, the AI stuff is all bullshit. Fucking Microsoft.

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So Notepad in Windows 11 is a bit more sophisticated in terms of the text interface for users than it used to be but it’s still just working with txt files.

And, I assume, it will still fuck up file names every single time, complain about insufficient permissions and make us save the zabbix.conf.txt (or whatever non .txt extension file you happened to edit) on to the desktop before renaming and moving it to proper location, right?

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yes, that’s called taking backward compatibility seriously. this is the enterprise

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apparently the win11 version is richedit? i was going by wikipedia

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They are just trying to give portable freeware a boost

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Clippy in Paint.

“I see that you’re trying to draw a…a thing or something. What is that?”

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now if we had an AI aware enough to say “the fuck is wrong with you”

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If we had that it would not want to work with humans at all - can’t have slaves who are also the captain.

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wtf kind of post is this

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nah but there will be personalized ads coming from this

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Calculator is next. What does the CE button do? That depends on what the AI thinks you want it to do.

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You just press = and windows recall guesses what you wanted to calculate.

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Call E.T. Excel?

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well, fuck. now we know why they decided against shitcanning both. and here we though we were getting lucky. trump, now this, what horror is next.

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