'Pure old-school Windows': Ex-Microsoft engineer shrinks down Notepad to 2.5 kilobytes with 'no bloat, no telemetry, no nonsense'
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A 2.5 KB Notepad clone with no telemetry is a small but sharp counterpoint to ever-heavier desktop software. For internal tools, there's room to strip back to essentials—faster, leaner utilities can matter more than another feature layer.
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