Windows 11 January Update Breaks Notepad
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1 hour ago
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| winbuzzer.com
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mossTechnician
56 minutes ago
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Partway through this article, Winbuzzer asks me to "Install Winbuzzer Prompt Station." I don't think this is a legitimate source.

It looks like most of the article is a rehash of this Windows Central article from a day earlier:

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/windows-...

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gruez
38 minutes ago
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>Partway through this article, Winbuzzer asks me to "Install Winbuzzer Prompt Station." I don't think this is a legitimate source.

It's just a first-party ad. There's even a "PROMO" tag above. The fact that it's first party, combined with the fact the site isn't too popular is probably why it didn't get blocked by your adblocker. But it doesn't make the site less of a "legitimate source" than say, The New York Times, which also has ads.

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Aldipower
44 minutes ago
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The Windows central article you are linking lacks a lot of additional information. The Winbuzzer article is better imho calling it not legitimate is a little bit harsh.
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Aldipower
43 minutes ago
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Recently I've installed Windows XP on an 20 years old machine to run an old software synth on it. Man, was XP a slick and neat system from today's perspective! Back in the days it felt sluggish, but now in comparison, I think it was one of the best Windowses ever.
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nikanj
38 minutes ago
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When it came out it was universally hated, when SP2 came out it was hated again with renewed vigor
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doubled112
27 minutes ago
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I even recall that people were concerned about spyware and user tracking in XP because it required online activation.

It's amazing what would trigger outrage back then vs what it all looks like now.

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brandon272
24 minutes ago
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From a UX and simplicity standpoint, in terms of what a typical user touches and experiences in an OS, I think XP SP2 was Windows at its peak. The UI seemed minimal, balanced and practical compared to the obtrusive mess that exists today.
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1970-01-01
49 minutes ago
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Notepad has been broken since they added telemetry to it a decade ago. I'm not joking. If you break telemetry globally, notepad will crash, along with calc and paint.
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honeycrispy
49 minutes ago
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This is heartbreaking in a way to see what's become of it. Windows was my childhood playground. I can't not feel some kind of attachment and a desire to save it.
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davisr
54 minutes ago
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I love what Microsoft is doing. Keep it up!
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baal80spam
53 minutes ago
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The slop must flow!
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embedding-shape
50 minutes ago
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I just had to boot Windows yesterday for some quick work (adding Windows support to my browser I've built from scratch) and since I barely have any tools on the Windows installation, I used notepad.exe to edit stuff.

And of course, it has a very obvious bug, any file shows "$filname.$ext.txt" in the title bar, regardless if it's a .txt or not. So opening config.toml shows as config.toml.txt.

Seemingly Microsoft got rid of the entire QA department, judging by the amount of bugs. Seriously, does the developers who implement these changes not open up the application they're editing even once before they push this out to customers? What the fuck is going on?

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bfrog
1 hour ago
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SpywareOS couldn’t even be bothered to allow text editor functionality, wasn’t in the KPIs of user activity monitoring and monetizing
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nikanj
39 minutes ago
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> Microsoft forum user Kave discovered the problem on Tuesday when trying to access work-related information stored in Notepad. “Getting the error code 0x803f8001 for most my microsoft apps including my Notepad app which has important information and URLS i need for my job. This is getting pretty paralyzing,”

It's always good to get some end-user perspective. "Hmm, notepad can't open a text file anymore" is such a trivial hurdle for power users, but completely blocks regular users

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