I used to have a love-hate relationship with indoor training. Over winter, when I used to race ‘cross, I was pretty religious about commuting home from work, then hopping straight on my basic, ...

In context: Microsoft is going in some very wild directions with Windows development, with Notepad being one of the most outstanding guinea pigs in AI and design experimentations. Notepad now has the ...

Microsoft is shoveling yet more features into the venerable Windows Notepad. This time it's support for tables, with some AI enhancements lathered on top. Notepad might predate Windows, but Microsoft ...

Microsoft is continuing to shovel AI functionality into its Notepad application, with Windows Insiders the first test subjects. The latest update makes AI features like Summarize, Write, and Rewrite ...

Ever since Microsoft killed WordPad in 2024, the much-simpler Notepad app has been receiving several new features—almost as if it’s evolving into a better, more modern version of WordPad. Meanwhile, ...

What if the humble Notepad, a tool synonymous with simplicity, suddenly became your most powerful writing assistant? With the integration of Copilot, Microsoft has transformed this classic text editor ...

Several years ago, I was working on the Programming Windows series that I later turned into the book Windows Everywhere. As I progressed through that history, I started collecting themes, or ideas, ...

Recap: Since Windows 11 launched in 2021, Notepad has received some of the most significant updates in its 42-year history. While the plaintext editor has traditionally served as a lightweight ...

Microsoft keeps adding new features to Notepad, like markdown (text formatting), and while it’s not necessarily a bad thing, some Windows 11 users aren’t happy with the approach. Windows 11’s Notepad ...

With the latest Insider update in Dev and Canary channels, Notepad is getting lightweight formatting support on Windows 11. It brings Markdown-style input and supports headers, lists, hyperlinks, bold ...

Microsoft announced today that the Windows 11 Notepad application is getting a text formatting feature supporting Markdown-style input. The feature is being introduced one year after Microsoft removed ...

Microsoft is testing a new AI-powered text generation feature in Notepad that can let Windows Insiders create content based on custom prompts. Dubbed "Write," the new Notepad feature is rolling out to ...