Microsoft keeps improving and adding more features to the Windows 11 Notepad application, the latest being a built-in character counter.

Notepad won't require a Microsoft account to use, despite the initial impression. The sign-in prompt is actually for Copilot, not Notepad itself. Impending worry about future app requirements ...

A prompt to sign in to an MS account upon opening Notepad sent many people into a stir, but they're making mountains out of molehills.

Microsoft has added bold, italic, and Markdown support to Notepad for Windows 11, updating the famously simple text editor with formatting tools.