Were you thinking Microsoft has added AI to virtually its entire software lineup except for Notepad? Well, here comes an update to prove you wrong. Now rolling out to Windows Insiders in Windows 11 is ...

Microsoft has started testing AI-powered Notepad text rewriting and Paint image generation tools four decades after the two programs were released in the 1980s. These AI "experiences" (as the company ...

Microsoft has finally released a spell check and autocorrect feature in Notepad for all Windows 11 users, forty-one years after the program was introduced in 1983. The new features have been tested by ...

Microsoft is continuing its trend of slowly releasing new Windows 11 features to Windows Insiders. The latest additional features to make the jump to the PC operating system bring AI capabilities to ...

Microsoft continues to improve Notepad with useful features in Windows 11. Microsoft continues to improve Notepad with useful features in Windows 11. is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, ...

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You might think that, as a generic text editor, Notepad would sit out Microsoft’s AI roadmap. Nope. And Microsoft is also testing shortcuts in which Copilot can be used to trigger often-used actions, ...

After extending its AI-powered Copilot from Windows 11 to Windows 10 and later to Android, Microsoft is now reportedly bringing some of that AI magic to Notepad with text generation capabilities in ...

Microsoft is unveiling a few key new features in beta builds of Windows 11 that it released today, though they’re not all in a single release. Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel may see new ...

Shortly after Windows 11 arrived, Microsoft made some key improvements in the Notepad app that hasn't seen much change since the Windows 95 days. Now, it may be introducing an even bigger feature, ...

Microsoft patches CVE-2026-20841, a high-severity Windows Notepad flaw that could allow code execution via malicious Markdown files. Notepad has long been Windows’ quiet utility knife. It opens ...