The simplicity that made the Windows Notepad so special is starting to be ruined, and Microsoft may be going too far with new ...

About a year ago, Microsoft announced that it was retiring Notepad's word processing counterpart, WordPad. Like Notepad, this program has been present on Windows computers for at least 30 years.

Notepad just received an update that adds new features to the classic app. Notepad has been around since 1983, holding strong as a basic text editor with a clean interface and minimal features.

Microsoft is killing off WordPad, its decades-old text editor in Windows. The company will no longer update the software. It will then remove it from a future version of Windows. WordPad has been ...

On Windows 11, Notepad includes a slew of features you probably don't know, including spell check and autocorrect, font customization, redesigned find and replace, startup behavior, dark mode, etc ...

I can currently see the spellcheck and autocorrect features in Notepad version 11.2405.13.0 running on a fully updated Windows 11 23H2 PC, ... WordPad is still available in Windows 11 22H2 and ...

A recent update to Notepad on Windows 11 adds support for spell check and autocorrect. Microsoft hasn't announced the update, but we've already seen the features roll out to PCs.

Microsoft has started rolling out an update to Notepad for Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev Channels on Windows 11. The updated version 11.2504.50.0 brings lightweight formatting options to ...

Meanwhile, WordPad, a free word processor that lives between Notepad and Word, is not long for this world. In a future update for Windows 11, Microsoft has confirmed its plans to remove WordPad ...

Notepad now lets you use markdown text formatting on Windows 11, which means you can write in Notepad just like you could in WordPad. ... If I need more features I just use Notepad++ or Notepad2.

That said, since WordPad was given its marching orders earlier this year, Microsoft has bolted new features onto Notepad to flesh it out a bit more - like a spell-check and autocorrect.

In Notepad, you’ll still be able to spell check in different languages. However, the following features will no longer be available if you don’t have an active Microsoft 365 subscription: AI ...