The simplicity that made the Windows Notepad so special is starting to be ruined, and Microsoft may be going too far with new ...

About a year ago, Microsoft announced that it was retiring Notepad's word processing counterpart, WordPad. Like Notepad, this program has been present on Windows computers for at least 30 years.

Microsoft is killing off WordPad, its decades-old text editor in Windows. The company will no longer update the software. It will then remove it from a future version of Windows. WordPad has been ...

Earlier this year, Microsoft killed WordPad—the free and surprisingly capable built-in word processor that debuted in Windows 95. For this, they must be punished. Yet while Microsoft taketh away ...

But now WordPad has gone the way of Clippy, Notepad is the only game in town on a fresh Windows installation.And Microsoft has actually been making it better and better in recent years. The ...

HUGE difference between word processors and simple text editors (and IDEs). This keeps coming up over and over when the news turns to Word, Wordpad, Notepad, VS Code, ad nauseum.

Microsoft has started rolling out an update to Notepad for Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev Channels on Windows 11. The updated version 11.2504.50.0 brings lightweight formatting options to ...

Notepad now lets you use markdown text formatting on Windows 11, which means you can write in Notepad just like you could in WordPad. ... If I need more features I just use Notepad++ or Notepad2.

Notepad on Windows has been a mainstay app of Microsoft's operating system since 1983. Thanks to a recent Windows 11 update, there are plenty of new features to take advantage of. Whether you need ...

In Notepad, you’ll still be able to spell check in different languages. However, the following features will no longer be available if you don’t have an active Microsoft 365 subscription: AI ...

I can currently see the spellcheck and autocorrect features in Notepad version 11.2405.13.0 running on a fully updated Windows 11 23H2 PC, ... WordPad is still available in Windows 11 22H2 and ...

On Windows 11, Notepad includes a slew of features you probably don't know, including spell check and autocorrect, font customization, redesigned find and replace, startup behavior, dark mode, etc ...