Windows Latest reports that it downloaded an update for Notepad from the Microsoft Store which provided the new functionality ...

Notepad’s rich text formatting (Markdown) support is now rolling out outside the Windows Insider Program on Windows 11.

Microsoft has added bold, italics, lists, hyperlinks, and even Markdown to the Windows Notepad app, making it look more and ...

If you're one of those people who's lamenting the loss of a super-streamlined text editor in Windows 11 - now Microsoft has binned WordPad, and turned Notepad into more of an approximation of that ...

Windows Latest took a closer look at a preview version of Edit, and sure enough it’s a svelte and compact text editor only 230KB in size. Microsoft You open Edit by typing edit in the Command ...

Even Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing now. Along with adding AI to a text editor that launched in 1983, Microsoft will let Windows Insiders test generative fill-and-erase tools in ...

Encoding: The new Notepad offers slightly changed encodings.So instead of ANSI, the new default encoding is UTF-8. And the new Notepad support UTF-8 without Byte Order Marking. Also, the encoding of ...

The text editor looks like a modern app, offers tab support, and can count characters and words. Now, Notepad users on Windows 11 can use spellcheck and autocorrect to weed out typing inconsistencies.

This is part of a broader push to include AI features in the Windows 11 Notepad text editing application. For instance, in November, ...

It's worth noting that WordPad first appeared in the Windows 95 operating system in 1995. Unlike this application, which Microsoft decided to discontinue, the Notepad text editor, on the other hand, ...

Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is unveiling its own command-line text editor at its ...