Microsoft dumps AI into Notepad as 'Copilot all the things' mania takes hold

Re:Microsoft dumps AI into Notepad as 'Copilot all the thing... by vel0city on Friday May 23, 2025 @01:38PM (#44074808)

I don't get the point of things like changing the tone of something with AI in Notepad. If I'm going to write something formal, I'm probably not writing it in Notepad.

What I'd kind of like with something like Copilot in a text editor, assuming it's going to be included in the first place, would be recommendations to fix formatting or a source to help find issues in config files.

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Re:Microsoft dumps AI into Notepad as 'Copilot all the thing... by IAmBroom on Friday May 23, 2025 @02:06PM (#44075051)

It harkens back to the days of Clippy...

"It looks like you're trying to write a suicide note. Would you like help with that?"

But now it's going to be AI transforming "remove all files from the storeroom" into "rm -r *"...

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Re:Microsoft dumps AI into Notepad as 'Copilot all the thing... by theGeatZhopa on Friday May 23, 2025 @02:20PM (#44075150)

in a standard windows installation, notepad and wordpad were the only tools for writing. Wordpad was the one, where formatting could be set. But it reached its EoL and is removed from new versions of windows. Notepad was upgraded with tabs for multifile edit. So, it makes sense, as a lot of people do not buy ms office or know about the other software like open office. ... May be its to complicated for them. So, having copilot in notepad solves two pains:

- giving the ones, who do not care for formatting, copilot in the only writing programm in windows/standard.

- allowing MSFT to push their copilot to users in an effort to establish it and to force users into an MSFT-Account

I don't like it either..

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