ai writing tools

Microsoft is quietly doing something that would have seemed unlikely a year ago: it is removing Copilot branding from parts of Windows 11 rather than adding more of it. In Notepad, the old Copilot menu is being replaced with “writing tools,” the button is changing from a Copilot-marked control...

Microsoft’s Notepad is no longer just the tiny, no-nonsense text box Windows users grew up with. In Windows 11, it has quietly become a surprisingly capable editing surface with tabs, session restore, recent-file history, Markdown-style formatting, spell checking, autocorrect, and AI-assisted...