In context: Microsoft is going in some very wild directions with Windows development, with Notepad being one of the most outstanding guinea pigs in AI and design experimentations. Notepad now has the ...

Microsoft announced in a Windows Insiders blog post that its lightweight text editor Notepad is currently testing extended formatting capabilities with support for tables. The idea is to allow users ...

Microsoft is rolling out a new Notepad update for Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev Channels. And, it introduces two new features. First, Notepad is expanding its lightweight formatting options ...

Microsoft Copilot works with several built-in Windows 11 apps to generate content, summarize text, analyze images, and answer questions. If you have a Microsoft account, you can now tap into AI with ...

Notepad on Windows 11 has evolved from a simple text editor into a tool supporting lightweight formatting, including bold, italics, lists, and Markdown syntax. While these features enhance note-taking ...

CoPilot+ PC owners have a new perk in the pipeline. Your AI PC will soon perform Notepad's AI writing features on-device — no subscription required. The app's summarize, write and rewrite options were ...

Microsoft has been on a tear updating Notepad, and now it’s adding an updated context menu that’s more consistent with Windows 11. News of this change comes via Deskmodder, which speculates that we’ll ...

Notepad recently got a makeover. Now, it comes with additional features like text formatting options, spell check and autocorrect, Copilot AI assistant, and Microsoft Account sign-in. While these ...

Jeff Werner is a software engineer and has been writing this column since 2007. Question: I have a question about running Notepad under Windows 11: What registry setting can I tweak to get Notepad to ...

Windows 11 Notepad just got a major upgrade, and it’s no longer just a plain text editor. Although a light replacement for WordPad, it now supports markdown and cool formatting options. Here, we will ...

Notepad now lets you use markdown text formatting on Windows 11, which means you can write in Notepad just like you could in WordPad. The new formatting feature is turned on by default, and you just ...

For years, Notepad has existed as a bare-bones text editor. No longer. Microsoft keeps adding to it, including a new update that includes capabilities that you might have expected in another Windows ...