Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN MAY 2025?

On Mon, 2 Jun 2025 18:19:10 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

On 6/2/2025 7:13 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

(Microsoft is also adding fonts and font-effects (bold,underline,
colors) to Notepad in the next update. Because that's what people want
from a plain-text editor apparently.)

No.  Its what MS wants to do to get rid of plain text editors entirely.

I doubt that's the case. There's no call against them and plain-text
is too incredibly useful --even for Windows-- that getting rid of them
would be silly.

But Microsoft deprecated Wordpad a few years back and it left a gap
between a full-fledged word-processor and a plain-text editor. Rather
than bring back Wordpad, they've decided to merge its functionality
into Notepad. Microsoft is on sort of a thing where they're very
boastful now about how they are updating all these ancient apps that
haven't been updated in decades. Plus, since they're trying to wedge
their Copilot AI into every app, Notepad was due a revamp anyway.

So it's less an engineering-led change than a marketing trend. And you
know how well thought out marketing plans always are ;-)