Windows 11’s Notepad now lets you generate tables, which means you can create tidy notes, book lists, or to-do sheets. Tables support in Notepad is rolling out, and it will become available for ...

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 ...

The Java ecosystem has historically been blessed with great IDEs to work with, including NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ from JetBrains. However, in recent years Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor ...

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, ...

What if the humble Notepad, a tool synonymous with simplicity, suddenly became your most powerful writing assistant? With the integration of Copilot, Microsoft has transformed this classic text editor ...

Several years ago, I was working on the Programming Windows series that I later turned into the book Windows Everywhere. As I progressed through that history, I started collecting themes, or ideas, ...

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 ...

Microsoft is testing a new AI-powered text generation feature in Notepad that can let Windows Insiders create content based on custom prompts. Dubbed "Write," the new Notepad feature is rolling out to ...

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 ...

Microsoft’s biggest apps — Word, Excel, and the rest in the Office suite — have all had spell checking for a long time now. But one notable app from which it was chronically missing? Notepad! Below ...

Juggling multiple instances of Notepad isn’t easy, but I was thrilled when Windows 11 added tabs to Notepad. Now, a single window holds all my open Notepad files without cluttering up my taskbar.