- Some Windows 11 users have obtained the print notebook now requires connecting to your Microsoft account
- This is not true, but the application has just received a new AI functionality which requires such a connection
- There is still a lot of anger about Microsoft adding more and more capacities to the notepad when designed to be a rationalized text editor
Should the idea of Windows 11 users now connect to use the notebook application A new diagram concocted by Microsoft to annoy people? Fortunately, this is not the case, even if many people have jumped to this conclusion.
Do you connect with a Microsoft account for the notebook?! 🙄 pic.twitter.com/vfzvm44ec0February 16, 2025
The perspective was raised by Bobpony who (with other residents of X) stressed that after the recent update of the notebook application, he now asked them to connect to their Microsoft account.
This immediately attracted a considerable amount of anger, because the whole concept of notebook is that it is a super dissected text editor that you can quickly draw and use. So, not only is it a stumbling block under fundamental design of the notepad in this regard, but some people do not have Microsoft account either.
Although this actually happens to some users of Windows 11, the reason for this is explained in the text accompanying the connection of contextual request, which indicates: “Connect with your Microsoft account to use the rewriting and its functionalities in the block- Notes. “
The update of the notepad has brought the possibility of using rewriting, which is a co-pilot functionality which makes that the Redrafate all selected text (a capacity observed in the tests with Windows 11 at the end of the last year).
As Tom’s hardware highlights, which noticed the post above on X, this dialogue prompt only appears for those who click on the rewriting button in the notepad.
In addition, if you see this dialog box and you do not want to connect as requested, you can just close it. However, you will not be able to use the rewriting function, unless you log into your Microsoft account.
Analysis: the notepad that goes in the wrong direction?
In many ways, it is therefore a storm in a tea cup scenario – but there is an underlying reason for which people could be easily angry here. First, there was a wider push for the people of Cajole to register for a Microsoft account, including a bunch of “suggestions” infiltrating Windows 11 in various bits of the interface.
Thus, everything that will bother some users, guaranteed, even if Microsoft notes that a connection is necessary to use the rewriting capacity due to “ends of IA security and safety” (concerning all requests that you do).
Second, watching this incident once again (or lack of incident is a better way to describe it, perhaps) from a broader perspective, it is another decline against the Notepad that is strengthened. As mentioned above, the idea of the notebook is that it is a naked and light text editor, and yet Microsoft has continued to add additional garnishes since the launch of Windows 11.
This includes the tastes of Dark Mode, Multi-Stand Undo and Spellcheck more autocorrect, and now we have the rewriting function of the AI mentioned in the notepad. And no, of course, you don’t need to use any of these elements, but the concern is that they are still lying back once was. (Although Microsoft has, at least, recently changed the application to load a little faster).
This is why you can see that some of those who respond to the publication on X urge anyone who was fed up with this new path that WordPad seems to be considering notepad ++ instead. Indeed, I would also throw the recommendation of our list of the best text editors, namely the sublime text.