It has finally happened. Microsoft’s text editor Notepad just got a spellcheck feature, more than 40 years after the software launched in 1983.

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 Notepad is getting a new AI 'Rewrite' tool that will let you highlight text and tap into generative AI to rewrite and change it.

You can continue to use Notepad and Paint without a subscription, but you won’t get these new features. It’s surprising because Microsoft has never put anything in these apps behind a paywall ...

Microsoft Paint and Notepad are getting new AI features that can add and remove images from photos and offer rewrites of text.

Microsoft is busy fleshing out a number of the higher-profile default apps in Windows 11, and Notepad is the latest application to get some attention with the addition of a very useful feature.

Notepad also now supports hyperlinks and bullet-point lists. A toggle button in the status bar at the bottom of the window allows users to switch between formatted Markdown and raw Markdown syntax.

After 41 years, Microsoft has added two essential features to its storied Notepad app in Windows 11, and you can get them now.

Since last year, it has been possible to summarize texts and adjust the tone of your writing in Notepad, using Microsoft’s AI tool Copilot. In the latest beta version of Notepad (11.2504.46.0 ...

We all have to handle plain text files from time to time, and we know that printing files with the built-in Notepad applet in Windows should be called “pain text.” Fortunately, I’ve found a ...