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“Your essential text editor, elevated,” says Microsoft when you open one of the world’s once simplest text editors, Notepad, on Windows 11 after a recent update. Notepad now has a welcome screen, ...

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Ever since Microsoft killed WordPad in 2024, the much-simpler Notepad app has been receiving several new features—almost as if it’s evolving into a better, more modern version of WordPad. Meanwhile, ...

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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 ...

You’ve probably heard of Porsche’s Paint to Sample program that allows customers to spec their car in colors not listed among the stock color swatches. But did you know it’s not just one program, but ...

Recap: Since Windows 11 launched in 2021, Notepad has received some of the most significant updates in its 42-year history. While the plaintext editor has traditionally served as a lightweight ...

Microsoft announced today that the Windows 11 Notepad application is getting a text formatting feature supporting Markdown-style input. The feature is being introduced one year after Microsoft removed ...