Microsoft Is Paywalling Notepad and Paint, but Only AI Features

For the first time, some features in longstanding Microsoft apps Notepad and Paint will require a paid subscription. As reported by PC World, some newer features that have been added to apps that use AI, such as an image generator in Paint and AI rewriting of text in Notepad, will require a paid Microsoft 365 account.

Non-AI features in both apps should continue to work. Those that aren’t accessible due to a lack of a subscription may be grayed out.