For years, we've been able to freely use all the features in Windows apps like Notepad and Paint. But those days seem to be gone. Yes, the core features are still freely accessible, but the latest AI ...

On Windows 11, you can now create tables with the expansion of the Markdown support in Notepad, and here's how to get started.

Microsoft Notepad is a no-frills text editor that comes as a standard feature on computers running the Windows operating system. Although useful for simple tasks such as inputting unformatted text for ...

Microsoft continues to improve Notepad with useful features in Windows 11. Microsoft continues to improve Notepad with useful features in Windows 11. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has ...

To me, it seems like Notepad's spellcheck is more word-focused instead of trying to identify the context and figure out which word works best in that case. There are countless other such examples. I ...

TL;DR: Microsoft is ushering in a lightweight text editor for Windows 11 called Edit, which it says pays homage to the classic MS-DOS Editor experience, but with a suitably modern interface. It's ...

TL;DR: Microsoft has introduced a paywall for Notepad, requiring a Microsoft 365 subscription to access new features like the AI-powered Rewrite tool. Notepad has been around for more than 40 years, ...

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 ...

After more than four decades, Windows Notepad is getting a significant update. First released in 1983 in MS-DOS, the simple text editor predates Windows itself and has been available in every version ...

There’s some bad news for Windows users who want to use all of the built-in features of the operating system and its integrated apps. Going forward, Microsoft is restricting features in two iconic ...

Notepad is a very basic text editor with very few additional features beyond typing and saving. WordPad is slightly more sophisticated and is a stripped-down word processing program that offers a ...