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Re:Google’s constant product shutdowns are damaging its brand by wvenable on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @03:04PM (#19557506)
Yet, for some reason Microsoft keeps updating calculator and notepad in Windows.
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Re:Google’s constant product shutdowns are damaging its brand by munk-a on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @05:54PM (#19558955)
Really? I'm on windows 10 and I couldn't tell you what they've changed in notepad - did they fix legacy mac EOL support (i.e. `\r`)?
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Re:Google’s constant product shutdowns are damaging its brand by wvenable on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @06:58PM (#19559384)
Yes, they did fix the line-endings for both Mac and Unix files.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/12/17563704/microsoft-window...

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Re:Google’s constant product shutdowns are damaging its brand by munk-a on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @01:28PM (#19565276)
Oh, well that's nice and helpful. Good for them!

It probably adds almost no value to the product they're selling (nobody is buying windows for notepad, and anyone with serious notepadding to do gets a real editor) but it's a nice thing to do.

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