The freshly updated Notepad app with native Arm64 support is rolling out now to Windows Insiders on Windows 11 Microsoft's Dev, Beta and Release Preview channels.

Microsoft is distributing new preview versions of the rudimentary text editor Notepad in the Insider channels. It now learns advanced text formatting and also allows Markdown-style input.

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

Windows 11 Notepad finally supports formatting and Markdown, and you can switch back to the original Notepad in Settings This article, originally posted in Japanese on 10:50 Jun 02, 2025, may ...

The Notepad app on Windows 11 is getting an AI upgrade with a new "Explain with Copilot" feature that will break down and analyze text highlighted by the user.

Notepad’s spellcheck and autocorrect are rolling out to everybody after 41 years It's still bare-bones by most standards, but Notepad has evolved a lot recently.

Windows 11 Notepad gets improved context menus in latest update The new context menu matches the look of Windows 11 24H2 and provides faster access to commonly used actions.