Editor's take: Microsoft is having a tough time leaving Windows Notepad well enough alone. The classic text editor is effectively gone, replaced by a "new" version that keeps accumulating a growing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Notepad was once just a simple tool for typing plain text, but that simplicity has steadily evolved over multiple updates.

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