(There is a question at the end, I have to go through the story first)Ok, now you may be thinking that notepad is a windows app, how would it fail with linux? valid questionok, I've been trying to ...

Traditionally, Notepad has only supported text files which use Windows End of Line characters, and if these are missing – Unix, Linux and macOS text files don’t use them – then everything ...

Microsoft decided to fix one of Notepad's longest running problems: garbled text files from other operating systems.

Microsoft Software notepad Microsoft finally fixes nagging Notepad compatibility issue, plays nice with Unix, Linux and macOS files Notepad has shipped with every version of Windows since 1985 By ...

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.