The title is quite sensational compared to the content. They only added an AI Rewrite feature for notepad that requires a Microsoft 365 subscription. Considering the cost of AI, and the fact that it will very probably run in the cloud, it is very reasonable that it isn't free. Everything else about notepad remains free / included with the price you paid for the OS.
- I agree, but the idea of adding AI to notepad is quite insane in its own right
  
  Adding layers to paint was what surprised me
  
  That's actually very nice, one of the few Microsoft programs that I genuinely miss - layers are a quality of life feature that is actually really nice to have 👍
  
  I think the idea is that you can use it for reformatting small sets of data I guess.
  "make all the dates in this CSV iso-8601"
  
  Genuinely very useful, however I feel that can be achieved without a login and paid AI subscription.
  
  You're right of course.
  Like the other commenter said for this specific problem you'd use a spreadsheet.
  It's just an example though and there are others, like maybe removing url encoding from a string or something.
  Again this can be done in some other tool without much fuss, but the versatility offered by notepad will be useful for a lot of people.
  
  Heck, it probably can be done with a regex. (Yeah, I know)
  There's no need to kill three forests just to do the exact same work you could have done by opening your dataset in Excel.

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